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Photographer

Monika Bulaj
Prize

3rd Place / Book/Documentary
Technical Info

GEOGRAFIE SOMMERSE  (in Italian language)  2023, 248 p.,140 photos col. and bw, cm 23,6x33 ,
Website

http://www.monikabulaj.com

Visual poetical atlas of shared sacred spaces and minorities, nomads and pilgrims fleeing persecutions. 248 pages,140 photos col. and bw, realised in other 20 years of work, in 26 countries. I can send you the pdf of the book.

Biography

Monika Bulaj is a Polish award-winning photojournalist, reporter, documentary film-maker, based in Italy. Her personal work on minorities and nomads at risk, faiths and shared sacredness in Eastern Europe, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Africa, and Caribbean, has appeared in The Guardian, Granta Magazine, National Geographic, The New York Times, TIME, Courier International, RevueXXI, La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, Al Jazeera, and GEO, among others.
Awards

MOST NOTABLE AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS: • The Leica International Society 2022 grant winner, Ireland • Premio Montale Fuori di Casa, Sezione Giornalismo Fotografico, 2022, Italy • Nomination for the Luxembourg Art Price 2021 • Nomination for National Geographic Society's Storytelling Fellowship 2020 •Travel grant from Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, USA 2019 •Virginia Quarterly Review Prize for Photography, USA 2019 • Leonian Award/ W. Eugene Smith grant in Humanistic Photography, USA 2018 • Nomination for the Prix Carmignac ‘The Amazon’ 2018 • Nomination for Award ANI - PixPalace 2016 • Nomination for Visa d'Or Daily Press 2015 • The National Non Violence Award 2014 (First woman to be given this award) • Catchlight, the honourable mention in the Professional Category 2014 • Premio Città di Trieste al Reportage 2012 • Tomizza award 2012 • Nomination for Beata Pawlak Award 2011 • Lucchetta Grant 2011 • TEDGlobal Fellowship 2011 • The Aftermath Project Grant Winner 2010 • Bruce Chatwin Special Award for Photography “Absolute Eyes” 2009 • Grant in Visual Arts sponsored by the European Association for Jewish Culture 2005