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Starving Babies, Molotov Cocktails and Death Threats: One Photojournalist’s Venezuelan Reality - The New York Times

Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Starving Babies, Molotov Cocktails and Death Threats: One Photojournalist’s Venezuelan Reality

Meridith Kohut, an American photographer who frequently freelances for The Times, feels “a moral obligation to stay” and bear witness to the horrors of Venezuela’s economic collapse.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/reader-center/venezuela-crisis-meridith-kohut-photojournalist.html

If you know anything about the crisis in Venezuela, you’ve most likely seen the work of Meridith Kohut, an independent photojournalist based in Caracas.

Meridith Kohut Wins 2017 Getty Images Chris Hondros Fund Award | PDNPulse

Tue, 02 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Meridith Kohut Wins 2017 Getty Images Chris Hondros Fund Award | PDNPulse

Photojournalist Meridith Kohut won the sixth annual $20K Getty Images Chris Hondros Fund Award. ProPublica won the first ever $10K Domestic Reporting Grant.

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/05/meridith-kohut-wins-2017-getty-images-chris-hondros-fund-award.html

Venezuela-based photojournalist Meridith Kohut has won the sixth annual $20,000 Getty Images Chris Hondros Fund (CHF) Award for 2017. Non-profit news organization ProPublica has also won the first-ever Domestic Reporting Grant from the Chris Hondros Fund.

Meridith Kohut Wins Chris Hondros Award for Venezuela Coverage - The New York Times

Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Meridith Kohut Wins Chris Hondros Award for Venezuela Coverage

Before Meridith Kohut won the award for documenting Venezuela’s crumbling mental hospitals, she had been mentored by Mr. Hondros.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/merdith-kohut-wins-the-fifth-annual-getty-images-and-chris-hondros-award/

Meridith Kohut, who has been documenting Venezuela’s downward spiral for The New York Times, has won the fifth annual Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award. The award was created in honor of Mr. Hondros, who was killed in Libya in April 2011 along with the photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington.

Venezuela: Meridith Kohut Chronicles the Country's Collapse | Time.com

Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

A Visual Record of Venezuela’s Collapse

Meridith Kohut won the Overseas Press Club of America’s Feature Photography prize

via Time: https://time.com/4709051/venezuela-meridith-kohut/

Over the last four years, as Venezuela descended into economic and social chaos, Meridith Kohut, a Houston-born photographer based in Caracas, built one of the most complete photographic chronicles of the country’s collapse. Working for the New York Times, she covered the breakdown of Venezuela’s public hospitals, workers flocking to illegal gold mines, people turning to drug smugglers to get out of the country, as well as a wave of extrajudicial killings at the hands of the police and military.

Good Eye — Vantage — Medium

Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Good Eye

Meridith Kohut is one of the most sought-after and prolific photojournalists in the world, and she almost missed her calling.

via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/good-eye-3baf4f9e0872

Meridith Kohut is one of the most sought-after and prolific photojournalists in the world, and she almost missed her calling.