Tiana Markova-Gold’s Profile

Scènes et Types By Tiana Markova-Gold: 14Dec; Scènes et Types In the spring of 2011 I spent three and a half months in Morocco working with writer Sarah Dohrmann on a collaborative project about prostitution and the marginalization of women. While in Morocco I began to work with collage, cutting up the photographs I was making and piecing them back together, layering and juxtaposing the images. I was spending time with and photographing women who were pushed to the edges of society – single mothers,...; Tags: Art, Collage, Documentary, Human Rights, Morocco, North Africa, Photography, Prostitution, Rape, Sexuality, Women's Rights

Tiana Markova-Gold is a freelance documentary photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. She received a New York Times Scholarship to attend the full-time Photojournalism Program at the International Center of Photography in 2006-07. She has traveled extensively, documenting social issues with a particular focus on women and girls.

Tiana’s photographs have been recognized in numerous photography contests including Pictures of the Year International, New York Photo Awards, PDN Photo Annual, American Photography and the International Photography Awards. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Exit Art, Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York Photo Festival, HOST Gallery in London, England and the Lumix Festival of Young Photojournalism in Hannover, Germany.

Since the spring of 2007, Tiana has been working on an in-depth project about the lives of women in prostitution in New York City. In January 2009 she traveled throughout Asia on a photography fellowship from the Johnson & Johnson Foundation, photographing social services projects in nine countries across the region. In April and May 2009 she traveled to Nigeria and Brasil as the recipient of a fellowship from Global Fund for Children and the Nike Foundation, documenting the work of several local organizations whose aim is to empower, protect and educate adolescent girls and young women. She is a 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Photography and 2010 recipient, with writer Sarah Dohrmann, of the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for If You Smoke Cigarettes in Public You Are a Prostitute: Women and Prostitution in Morocco.

www.tianamarkovagold.com

PHOTOGRAPHY EDUCATION/INTERNSHIPS:

Teaching Assistant to Jane Evelyn Atwood, ICP Summer Workshop 2007 & 2008
Eddie Adams Workshop/Barnstorm XXI 2008
Review Santa Fe, Center 2008
Internship with Stanley Greene/Noor Images, Spring 2007
International Center of Photography, Documentary/Photojournalism Program 2006-07

SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS:

Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, 2010
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, Photography 2010
Women in Photography-LTI/Lightside Materials Grant 2010
Pictures of the Year International 67, Portrait, Second Place 2010
Global Fund for Children/Nike Foundation/ICP Fellow 2009
Johnson & Johnson Foundation/ICP Fellow 2009
New York Photo Awards, Professional Editorial Series, Nominee 2009
Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographers, Winner 2009
CDS/Honickman First Book Prize, Finalist 2008
Julia Dean New Documentarian Award, Second Place 2008
New York Photo Awards, Student Editorial Single, Nominee & Book Project, Winner 2008
PDN Photo Annual 2008
American Photography 24, Selected 2008
International Photography Awards/Lucies, 2007, 2008, 2009
Prix de la Photographie Paris, Honorable Mention 2008
New York Times Scholarship, International Center of Photography 2006-07

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism
Hannover, Germany
June 2010

Sombra Projects
New York Photo Festival, DUMBO, NY
May 2010

New Visonaires 2008
New York Photo Festival, DUMBO, NY
May 2009

NYMPHOTO Group Show IV
Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, NY
May-June 2009

II AMERIKA, group exhibition
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
September-October 2008

FOTO8 Summer Show 2008
HOST Gallery, London
July-September 2008

NPPA Women In Photojournalism Conference Juried Exhibition
McKenna Museum of African American Art, New Orleans, LA
August 2008