Contact/Bio

Teru Kuwayama is a photographer based in New York. His work includes coverage of humanitarian crisis across Asia and the Middle East. His photographs have appeared in magazines including Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, Outside, Fortune, and Vibe. His work on the Tibetan refugee diaspora received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace, and has been exhibited at the Open Society Institute and at the United Nations. In 2004, Esquire magazine profiled him as among the "Best and Brightest" of his generation for his reportage on the occupation of Iraq. In 2005, PDN cited his work in Kashmir in a selection of the most iconic images in contemporary photography. In 2006 he received a Nikon Storyteller Award, a Days Japan International Photojournalism Award, and a W. Eugene Smith fellowship for his work on Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.

Teru Kuwayama
130 Seventh Ave. #360
NY NY 10011 USA
teru@kuwayama.com
www.lightstalkers.org/teru

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