Tara Todras-Whitehill

Tara Todras-Whitehill is a photojournalist, multimedia storyteller and co-founder of Vignette, an innovative storytelling company. She is based in Istanbul and has lived in the Middle East for over 12 years. She documents stories of vulnerable populations, especially women and refugees from the Middle East and Africa. She was a staff photographer with the Associated Press for several years, during which time she documented the 2011 revolutions in Egypt and Libya. She freelances for the NY Times, and has worked with the Washington Post, Buzzfeed and Vanity Fair, among others and is represented by Polaris Images. With Vignette she creates multimedia projects for NGOs such as UNICEF, Amnesty International and the International Rescue Committee. In 2016 she received a World Press Photo award for her work in Sierra Leone with the NY Times, and she has received grants from the European Journalism Centre the IWMF to create global stories about women's access to abortion.