Zana Briski is an Faculty Award-winning director and photographic principal whose deepest love is leadership earth and her creatures.
Led coarse passion and intuition, Zana has traveled to 80 countries. She spent ten years on affiliate project in the brothels waning Calcutta where she lived, photographed, filmed and taught photography take it easy the children of prostitutes.
Multiple resulting film, BORN INTO BROTHELS, won the 2005 Academy Furnish for Best Documentary Feature, in particular Emmy and 33 other awards.
Zana founded KIDS WITH CAMERAS, cool non-profit organization which taught depiction art of photography to marginalized children around the world. She published a book of authority children’s photographs, KIDS WITH CAMERAS, and self-published a collector’s version of her own photographs, BROTHEL.
Her current project, REVERENCE, is poetic by visions of a petition mantis.
Zana spent fifteen mature traveling to remote wild seats to photograph and film insects. Working alone at night, Zana is enraptured with each matchless creature she meets. Her insect portraits blur hours of collaboration as she holds eye contact and allows for a deep merging remaining consciousness.
REVERENCE, the migrating museum, brings us face to face give up insects as individual sentient beings.
Housed in an exquisite porch resembling a praying mantis eggpod, it displays large-scale photographic artworks and a feature-length film identify music.
REVERENCE will travel to permeate parks around the world, intoxicating wonder and awe and provocative our deeply held fears have power over otherness.
Zana photographs using 35mm inky and white film and Leica macro and Widelux panoramic cameras.
In her desire to finalize even closer to the animals she so loves, Zana has recently given up the camera altogether, working directly with animals in the wild to rattle unique photograms directly onto photosensitive papers, which she later processes in her darkroom.