Daniella Zalcman

Daniella Zalcman is a Vietnamese-American documentary photographer based in New Orleans. She is a Catchlight Fellow, a multiple grantee of the National Geographic Society and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation, and the founder of Women Photograph, a nonprofit working to elevate the voices of women and nonbinary visual journalists. Her work tends to focus on the legacies of western colonization, from the rise of homophobia in East Africa to the forced assimilation education of Indigenous children in North America. Daniella is also currently a Professor of Practice at Tulane where she teaches classes on community engagement journalism and the ethics of visual media. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in architecture in 2009.