Donna DeCesare

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Donna DeCesare, Associate Professor
[Photo by Eli Reed]

Donna DeCesare is widely known for her groundbreaking coverage of the spread of Los Angeles gangs to Central America. Her photographs and testimonies from children in Guatemala and Colombia who are former child soldiers, survivors of sexual abuse, or who live with the stigma of HIV helped UNICEF to develop protocols for photographing children at risk.

News and arts publications have featured her award-winning photographs including: The New York Times Magazine, Life, Mother Jones, DoubleTake and Aperture. She is recipient of an Emmy award, the Dorothea Lange Prize, The Alicia Patterson Fellowship, the Mother Jones International Photo Fund Award, the Soros Independent Project fellowship and most recently a Fulbright Fellowship in Colombia.

DeCesare is currently documenting narratives of loss and survival among those who have suffered paramilitary violence in Colombia. Images and text from this project published on the Web site Crimes of War won a top award in the National Press Photographer’s Best of Photojournalism contest. Since the New York opening of her 2006 exhibition Sharing Secrets it has traveled to Washington DC, Korea, Poland and China.

Information on Sharing Secrets (traveling exhibition)
Information on Destiny’s Children (Web site in progress)
Information on Crimes of War (continuing project)

For more information View her Web site

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  1. Francisco Goldman to Speak at UT « University of Texas at Austin, Documentary Center, on February 17, 2008 at 8:58 pm said:

    [...] Goldman to Speak at UT Posted on February 17, 2008 by utdoccenter Professor Donna DeCesare and The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas are hosting a talk with Francisco [...]

  2. Donna DeCesare and Eli Reed’s Work to Be on Display at the HRC « University of Texas at Austin, Documentary Center, on April 10, 2008 at 5:28 pm said:

    [...] Donna’s Doc Ctr faculty page. Visit Eli’s Doc Ctr faculty page. More about the conference “Image, Memory, and the [...]

  3. “Destiny’s Children: L.A. Gangs in Post-war El Salvador” Presented by Donna DeCesare « University of Texas at Austin, Documentary Center, on May 6, 2008 at 2:19 pm said:

    [...] flyer with more info. Visit Donna’s Doc Ctr faculty page. Visit Eli’s Doc Ctr faculty page. More about the Harry Ransom Center and the “Inside El [...]

  4. Doc Center Recommends: Visual Acoustics by Eric Bricker « University of Texas at Austin, Documentary Center, on October 19, 2008 at 3:27 pm said:

    [...] and Documentary Center co-director Ellen Spiro and Journalism and Documentary Center faculty member Donna DeCesare highly recommend the documentaryVisual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman, a film by Eric [...]

  5. UT Documentary Center welcomes Donna DeCesare « University of Texas at Austin, Documentary Center, on March 27, 2009 at 11:33 am said:

    [...] Tuesday, March 31st at 6:00 PM Donna DeCesare will show a short illustrated autobiographical piece about her work in Latin American and will give [...]

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