Meredith Davenport

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Facilitator

Meredith Davenport is a freelance photojournalist based in New York City. Her photographs have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's and Newsweek, among many others. Her work focuses on issues involving human rights and social justice. She photographed the rise of President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela for National Geographic. She has also explored the impact of high levels of violence on the daily life of the city of Medellín, Colombia for National Geographic and documented the rise of militant Islam in Bangladesh for The New York Times Magazine.

Meredith lived in Latin America for seven years. She spent much of that time in Colombia covering civil unrest, political corruption and drug issues for the international press. In 2001, she was awarded a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism and traveled to Sudan to report on the lives of the Nuba people, forgotten by the civil war. She is the winner of a POYi and the 2001 UNICEF Child Photo of the Year award, as well as a Puffin Foundation grant for a body of work on the effects of pesticides in children in Costa Rica. In 2001, she produced and shot a segment on child soldiers in Colombia for HBO’s highly-acclaimed documentary, "Child Soldiers." In 2005 she was awarded special residency by The Corporation of Yaddo.