Zana briski biography books
Born into Brothels: Photographs by the Children of Calcutta.!
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Zana Briski is an Academy Award-winning director and photographic artist whose deepest love is the earth and her creatures.
Led by passion and intuition, Zana has traveled to 80 countries.
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She spent ten years on her project in the brothels of Calcutta where she lived, photographed, filmed and taught photography to the children of prostitutes. Her resulting film, BORN INTO BROTHELS, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, an Emmy and 33 other awards.
Zana founded KIDS WITH CAMERAS, a non-profit organization which taught the art of photography to marginalized children around the world.
She published a book of the children’s photographs, KIDS WITH CAMERAS, and self-published a collector’s edition of her own photographs, BROTHEL.
Her current project, REVERENCE, is inspired by visions of a praying mantis.
Zana spent fifteen years traveling to remote wild places to photograph and film insects. Working alone at night, Zana is enraptured wi
