MAGGIE STEBER
Maggie Steber is a documentary photographer known for her humanistic stories of people and cultures in crisis. She has worked in 62 countries. She has produced significant bodies of work on Native Americans, memory loss and Haiti, where she has worked for over 30 years and published a book with Aperture entitled DANCING ON FIRE.
Steber works for a variety of editorial clients including National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times Magazine and daily, AARP, Smithsonian Magazine, and numerous American and European publications. Her career in photography has included working as a contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine (4 years), as a photo editor for Associated Press and as the Director Of Photography/Asst. Managing Editor for Photography and Features at The Miami Herald. She has served as a judge for numerous grants, exhibitions and for World Press Photo Foundation and the iPOY competition. Steber has taught workshops internationally including the World Press Photo Joop Swart Master Class (3 years), the Foundry Workshops in Istanbul and Buenos Aires, and at the International Center of Photography in New York City.
Major awards and grant honors:
–Pulitzer Prize for newspapers
–The Leica Medal of Excellence
–First Prize Spot News World Press Photo Foundation News
–First Prize Magazine Documentary in Pictures of the Year (iPOY)
–Oliver Rebbot Award Best Photographic Coverage from Abroad
–The Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from University of Missouri
–Alicia Patterson Foundation grant
–Ernst Haas Grant
–Knight Foundation Grant
–Three time finalist for Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography
Exhibitions/Collections:
–Library of Congress American Women Photographers Collection
–Pingyao and Lianjhou Photo Festivals, China
–Visa Pour L’Image, Perpignan
–Jardins du Luxumbourg, Paris
–Smithsonian Institution
–New Orleans Museum of Art (Art of Caring, traveling exhibition)
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