Zana Briski facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Zana Briski
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Zana Briski in 2011
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| Born | 25 October 1966 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge, International Center of Photography |
| Occupation | Photographer, filmmaker |
| Known for | Born into ... |
Zana Briski (born 25 October 1966) is a British photographer and filmmaker, best known for Born into ..., the 2004 Oscar winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, which she directed. She founded Kids with Cameras, a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities throughout the world. Her interest in photography began at age 10.
After earning a master's degree at the University of Cambridge, she studied documentary photography at International Center of Photography in New York. .....
Her latest project Reverence is an experiential multimedia exhibit about transformation. Inspired by dreams of a praying mantis, she was led around the world to collaborate with living insects, taking their portraits in photographs and film. "My work is a tribute to insects, to their intelligence, personality and elegant beauty," she says. The project raised initial funds through the crowdsourcing site Kickstarter in 2010.
Briski has won numerous awards and fellowships including the Open Society Institute Fellowship, the Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 2000 to research and photograph in the ... of India, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the Howard Chapnick Grant and 1st Prize in 1999 in the World Press Photo foundation competition in the category "Daily Life stories". Briski and co-director Ross Kauffman were awarded grants from the Sundance Institute, the Jerome Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts for Born into ....
See also
In Spanish: Zana Briski para niños
