Misha Friedman Photographer

Contact: mishafriedman@ymail.com

Represented:
Cosmos Photo – Europe
Salt Images – Russia/CIS

Bio

Born in Moldova, living in New York

Awards and Grants:
Picture of the Year Int’l (POYi)
PDN 30
PhotoLucida Critical Mass Top 50
Magenta Flash Forward
Forward Thinking Museum
CIWEM
Freedom to Create
Images to Stop TB Award – Grant
Institute of Modern Russia – Grant
ITPC - Grant

Exhibitions:
Vinzavod, Moscow
SW1 Gallery, London
Mirchandani & Steinruecke, Mumbai
Exhibition Center, Xiamen, China
Nat Gallery Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ana Tzarev Gallery, New York
Cairo Opera House, Egypt
PCNW, Seattle

Lecturer:
ICP, New York
Rodchenko School, Moscow
School of Visual Arts, Moscow
Fotodepartament, Saint Petersburg
CDS, Duke University

Employment:
2005-2010 MSF/Doctors Without Borders
2003-2004 MDM/Doctors of the World

Positions held: logistician, administrator, project coordinator

Worked in: Nigeria, Sudan (South and Darfur), Uganda, Russia (North Caucasus), Ukraine, Georgia, Uzbekistan, India and Myanmar

Issues: sleeping sickness, kala azar, cholera, meningitis, IDPs, illegal migrants, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, intravenous drug use, street children, urban violence, mental health

Education:
2000 MSc Russia and Post-Soviet Studies – London School of Economics
1997 BA Economics – Binghamton Univ