Daniella Zalcman

Daniella Zalcman is a Vietnamese-American documentary photographer based in New Orleans, LA. She is a 2021 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.

Dogs, ranting about how everything is neocolonialism, being very bad at making pottery.

Photojournalists teach the world how to see. If we don’t have an industry of news photographers who are as diverse as the communities we hope to cover, we aren’t accurately or ethically constructing a visual historic record.

Scrabble, identifying birds, friend matchmaking.