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Guest Speaker

Photojournalist Nicole Tung

Photojournalist Nicole Tung is a freelance photojournalist, born in Hong
Kong. She graduated from New York University in 2009 after studying
journalism and history and freelances for international publications and
NGOs, covering the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. After covering the
conflicts in Libya and Syria extensively from 2011, focusing on the plight
of civilians, she went on to document the lives of Native American war
veterans in the U.S., as well as former child soldiers in the DR Congo, the
pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, and the refugee crisis in Europe.
With the support of the IWMF Grant for Women’s Stories, she explored the
rising violence against women in Turkey.

Most recently, she has turned her focus to Iraq and Syria, documenting the
wars against ISIS and its aftermath. Her work often explores those most
affected by conflict and the consequences of war.

She has received multiple awards for her work including the Human Rights Press Awards in Hong Kong for her
images on the migration crisis in 2015, as well as an honorable mention for the IWMF 2017 Anja Niedringhaus
Awards. She was the 2018 recipient of the Online News Association’s James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting
and received second place in the news category for Pictures of the Year International 2019. She is the recipient
of the Visa Pour l’Image French Ministry of Culture’s Production Grant in 2020. Nicole served on the board of
the Frontline Freelance Register (2015), advocating for the safety of freelance journalists around the world. She
is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

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