Standing Rock, North Dakota (detail), August 15, 2016
Archival pigment print
16 x 24 inches
AP, not signed
Retail Framed: $2,000
© Daniella Zalcman
Proceeds from this piece will be split between PCNW and the Native American Journalists Association, at the photographer’s request.
b. 1986, Washington, D.C.; lives in London, England and New York, NY
Zalcman’s photography examines legacies of western colonization, from the rise of homophobia in East Africa to the forced assimilation education of Indigenous children in North America. Her ongoing project “Signs of Your Identity” has been recognized with the 2017 Arnold Newman Prize, a 2017 RFK Journalism Award, the 2016 Magnum Foundation Inge Morath Award, and the 2016 FotoEvidence Book Award. Her work regularly appears in The Wall Street Journal, Mashable, the BBC, and CNN, among others. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in architecture in 2009. She is a multiple grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation, and a member of Boreal Collective. She is also the founder of Women Photograph, an initiative to elevate the voices of female and nonbinary visual journalists.