Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Maggie Steber
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Maggie Steber
Maggie Steber is an internationally renowned documentary photographer, educator, and photo editor. Her work has appeared in major magazines, newspapers and book anthologies as well as national and international exhibitions. She has worked in 72 countries specializing in telling the stories of underrepresented people and her work has been seen in 70 exhibitions in 35 countries.
Best known for her photo essays in National Geographic Magazine and her humanistic documentation of Haiti, she published Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti with Aperture. Her nine-year project on her mother’s melancholic voyage through memory loss was made into a multimedia presentation by MediaStorm and won a Webby award. In her career Maggie has worked as a picture editor for Associated Press, a contract photographer for Newsweek, and as the Director of Photography at The Miami Herald. Maggie is a member of VII Photo Agency.
Maggie has received wide recongition including as a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Guggenheim Fellow and a the Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri.
To see some of Maggie’s moving photographs just check out her website: maggiesteber.com/main.html
To stay up to date, follow me on Instagram and on X (Twitter) @smitatharoor. Stream and follow us on your favourite podcast platform.
View all episodes
By Smita Tharoor
4.9
88 ratings
Maggie Steber is an internationally renowned documentary photographer, educator, and photo editor. Her work has appeared in major magazines, newspapers and book anthologies as well as national and international exhibitions. She has worked in 72 countries specializing in telling the stories of underrepresented people and her work has been seen in 70 exhibitions in 35 countries.
Best known for her photo essays in National Geographic Magazine and her humanistic documentation of Haiti, she published Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti with Aperture. Her nine-year project on her mother’s melancholic voyage through memory loss was made into a multimedia presentation by MediaStorm and won a Webby award. In her career Maggie has worked as a picture editor for Associated Press, a contract photographer for Newsweek, and as the Director of Photography at The Miami Herald. Maggie is a member of VII Photo Agency.
Maggie has received wide recongition including as a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Guggenheim Fellow and a the Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri.
To see some of Maggie’s moving photographs just check out her website: maggiesteber.com/main.html
To stay up to date, follow me on Instagram and on X (Twitter) @smitatharoor. Stream and follow us on your favourite podcast platform.
More shows like Stories Seldom Told
View all
Science Friday
6,445 Listeners