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PROJECT DIRECTOR, GIGI COHEN

Gigi Cohen's work has developed a highly individual impressionistic style and psychological approach.

Coming from a traditional photojournalistic background, she began her career working for New York Newsday, where she got to know NYC in a way only a newspaper photographer could.

Since turning freelance in 1995 to specialize in portraiture and documentary photography, concentrating on social issues including: incarceration, AIDS and children's rights; she has developed an extensive international list of clients including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Independent on Sunday, L'Express, The New York Times Magazine and Der Spiegel among others.

Her travels have taken her to South Africa, Hong Kong, the Caribbean and throughout America; the work which has been exhibited in cities from Leeuwarden to Barcelona, Durban to Melbourne, and back to her hometown, NYC.

The emotional commitment to the people she photographs keeps her returning to these places. In Tennessee she continues to follow the life of death row Minister Joe Ingle and death row inmate Philip Workman; In Soweto, the street children taken care of by Ethel Mabala or "My Sister"; In Haiti, after documenting the daily life of a child domestic worker named, Josimène for a group project called Child Labor and the Global Village: Photography for Social Change.

Among her current on-going projects: the first, a grant from the Kids with Cameras foundation to work with child domestic workers in Haiti, the second, a grant from the Landys and Gyr Foundation to realize an exhibition called, "The Not-so-well-known-Writer" in London and Switzerland and the third, a personal project about an 89-year-old collector named Arthur in Brooklyn, NYC.

Gigi Cohen
New York Foundation for the Arts
Fellow in Photography, 2004

For more information on any of these projects please contact: gigicohen1@gmail.com

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