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Mimi Chakarova
Photographer and Filmmaker
For the past decade, photographer and filmmaker Mimi Chakarova has covered global issues examining conflict, corruption and the sex trade. Her film The Price of Sex, a feature-length documentary on trafficking and corruption premiered in 2011. Chakarova was awarded the Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York. She was also the winner of the prestigious Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting and a 2012 Dart Awards Finalist for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma.
Chakarova has taught visual storytelling at UC Berkeleys Graduate School of Journalism for 14 years, and has taught at Stanford Universitys African and African American Studies and Comparative Studies for Race and Ethnicity. She received her BFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MA in visual studies from UC Berkeley. Chakarovas work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., The Sunday Times Magazine, London, CBS News 60 Minutes, CNN World, BBC World, PBS FRONTLINE/World and the Center for Investigative Reporting among others. In 2007, Chakarova became the series curator of FRONTLINE/Worlds FlashPoint, featuring the work of photojournalists from around the world. She is currently a correspondent at the Center for Investigative Reporting.
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