Jodi Bieber

Jodi Bieber in 2014

Jodi Bieber (born 1966)[1] is a South African photographer. Her photograph of Bibi Aisha, a woman from Afghanistan whose ears and nose were severed by her husband and brother-in-law, was selected as the World Press Photo of the Year in 2010.[2]

Training and early work

Bieber trained under Ken Oosterbroek in 1993 and worked in South Africa until 1996.[3] In 2000 she covered an ebola outbreak in Uganda for The New York Times Magazine.[4]

Bibi Aisha

Bibi Aisha, then 18, was disfigured after being convicted by the Taliban of taking refuge from a violent husband in her family home. Her story was part of a 2010 Time report into the conditions of Afghan women (see Women's rights in Afghanistan), in conjunction with which Bieber's photo was featured on the magazine's front cover. David Burnett, the chair of the World Press Photo (WPP) jury, said of Bieber's photo of Aisha, "This could become one of those pictures – and we have maybe just ten in our lifetime – where if somebody says, 'You know, that picture of a girl … ', you know exactly which one they're talking about." The Photo of the Year award was Bieber's tenth WPP prize.[5]

Speaking about the photograph, Bieber said "I could have made a photograph with her looking or being portrayed more as the victim. And I thought 'no, this woman is beautiful.'"[6] In a 2014 essay Hilary Janks discussed Bieber's concern for Aisha's beauty and questioned whether "the mutilation [would] have been less reprehensible if Aisha had not been young and beautiful".[7]

Other work

In 2010 Bieber published Soweto, a monograph of photos of Soweto, Johannesburg.[8] In 2011 a series of portraits taken by Bieber in Shoreditch, London, entitled Inside Shoreditch, was exhibited at Spitalfields Market.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Phillips, Sarah (20 November 2011). "Photographer Jodi Bieber's best shot". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  2. ↑ Arnott, David R. (11 February 2011). "World Press Photo of the year awarded to Jodi Bieber". msnbc.com. Archived from the original on 13 February 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Dunlap, David W. (11 February 2011). "Is This the Best News Picture in the World?". Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  4. ↑ LLaurent, Olivier (29 July 2014). "Picturing Ebola: Photographers Chase an Invisible Killer". Time. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "World Press Photo 2011 in Edinburgh – Jodi Bieber interview". The List. 8 July 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Photographing Aisha for the Cover of TIME". Time. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  7. ↑ Janks, Hilary (2014). "The Importance of Critical Literacy". In Pandya, Jessica Zacher; Ávila, JuliAnna. Moving Critical Literacies Forward: A New Look at Praxis Across Contexts. New York: Routledge. p. 36.
  8. ↑ Laurent, Olivier (30 May 2010). "Jodi Bieber's Soweto". British Journal of Photography. Archived from the original on 31 May 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
  9. ↑ Poole, Katie (31 August 2011). "Jodi Bieber discusses the 'ditch'". British Journal of Photography. Archived from the original on 31 May 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2015.

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