Donna DeCesare
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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