Jodi Bieber

Jodi Bieber (born 1966 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African photographer.

Life

Jodi Bieber grew up in Johannesburg and initially completed three short photography courses at the Market Theatre Photography Workshop in her hometown. From 1993 on, she continued her education at the daily newspaper The Star, for which she was also a freelancer until 1996. She accompanied, among others, in 1994 the first democratic elections in their home country. Is first commissioned work for the New York Times Magazine as well as Geo and Stern joined on the visit of the World Press Masterclass in Amsterdam (1996).

In the following years, Jodi Bieber employed photographically particularly with Africa. Your incurred in the course of ten years, portraits of children and young people on the edge of South African society formed the basis for her book Between Dogs and Wolves - Growing up with South Africa, which appeared in five different countries in 2006. Represented she was previously in the group exhibition Soweto - A South African Legend ( 2001), which was shown in various German cultural institutes and in South Africa. Reports emerged next from Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Uganda, where she documented the outbreak of Ebola fever epidemic in the fall of 2000.

Jodi Bieber is not only working for newspapers and magazines, but also often in cooperation with non-profit or non-governmental organizations such as Doctors Without Borders, to realize Pro Helvetia and UNICEF long-term projects. Outside of Africa, it was commissioned by the British aid organization Learning for Life children in Pakistan to hold their school life. For the anti-AIDS organization Positive Lives in 2003, she documented the lives of 100 drug-dependent HIV sufferers who lived on the landfill Las Cañas at Valencia.

The work of Jodi Bieber has won several awards, including with the World Press Photo Awards. A known recording Bieber was named the Press Photo of the Year 2010. The photo for Time magazine shows the 18 -year-old Afghan Bibi Aisha with a disfigured face. Her husband had cut off her statement on a Taliban court ears and nose after she had fled because of his violent excesses against him.