Shiho Fukada (深田 志穂, Fukada Shiho) is a Japanese photojournalist based between New York and Japan. Her clientele consists of The New York Times, MSNBC, Le Monde, Stern and the New York magazine, among others.[1][2] She won the Grand Prize in Editor and Publisher Magazine’s Ninth Annual Photos of the Year contest in 2008.[3] Fukada also won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship [4] in 2010 to research and photograph Japan's disposable workers.
Career
editFukada majored in English literature and first worked in fashion advertising as an account executive. She borrowed a 35 mm SLR camera and started making photos.[5]
References
edit- ^ UNICEF bio
- ^ Fukada, Shiho. "Bio". Accessed May 30, 2010.
- ^ Mitchell, Greg. "Ninth Annual Photos of the Year". Editor and Publisher Magazine. November 1, 2008.
- ^ Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
- ^ Lesko, Louis. "A Different Kind of Briefcase Archived 2011-07-10 at the Wayback Machine" DigitalPhotoPro Magazine. Werner Publishing.
External links
edit- Shiho Photojournalist Official site
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