| GREG CONSTANTINE Greg Constantine was born in the United States and is a self-taught photographer. He is currently based in Southeast Asia. Since beginning his career as a photographer he has worked on long-term projects like: Moments From Modern Day Edo (about Tokyo), A Matter of Exposure (about North Korean Refugees) and The Road to Re-Entry (about formerly incarcerated women in Watts Los Angeles). In late 2005 he moved to Asia and began work on his project Nowhere People. Photo essays of his work have been widely published and featured online. Exhibitions and projections of Nowhere People have been held at Chobi Mela IV in Bangladesh, The Angkor Photo Fest in Cambodia, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Japan, the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Thailand in Bangkok and the United Nations Palais de Nations in Geneva. His work has received numerous awards, including awards in Pictures of the Year International (POYi), NPPA Best of Photojournalism, Px3: Prix De La Photographie Paris and the International Photography Awards. Greg’s photo essays from Nowhere People were nominated for UNICEF Photo of the Year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. In 2008 he received the SOPA Award for Feature Photography from the Society of Publishers in Asia, an Award of Merit in the 12th Annual Human Rights Press Awards in Hong Kong and the Harry Chapin Media Award for Photojournalism. In 2009, Greg was part of a team of journalists from the International Herald Tribune who received the Osborn Elliott Prize for Journalism on Asia for their coverage of the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Burma. The award is presented annually by the Asia Society. In 2011, his work has been recognized with a Special Jury Prize in the Days Japan Photojournalism Awards, an Award for Feature Photography in the 15th Annual Human Rights Press Awards in Hong Kong and was shortlisted for the Amnesty International Media Award for Photojournalism in the UK. His work from the essay, Kenya's Nubians: Then & Now was seleced by the Open Society Institute for the exhibition Moving Walls 19 which opens on December 1, 2011 in New York City. Greg has received several grants, fellowships and commissions to continue work on Nowhere People. He received a one-month project grant and visiting fellowship from Oxford Brookes University in the UK (2008), was named a finalist for the Getty For Good Grant in 2009, received funding from the International Observatory on Statelessness (2009) and commissions from the UNHCR (2008, 2009, 2010). In 2009, Greg received an OSI Distribution Grant from the Documentary Photography Project at the Open Society Institute (OSI) to fund exhibitions of his work on the Nubians in Kenya. And in 2010, received a discretionary grant from OSI, which will fund his first book: Kenya's Nubians: Then & Now (Sept. 2011) He has worked with several international humanitarian and human rights organizations on projects including: A Preventable Fate: AIDS in Burma with Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), Cyclone Nargis a book by the World Food Program and Futures Denied with Refugees International. Greg plans to continue work on Nowhere People through 2012. |