Member Profile: Wendy Stone

closeI have been working in Africa for 27 years photographing international aid and relief work and have traveled to 21 countries on photo assignments with ten UN agencies and many non-profit organizations. In 2011 my first children's book was published, "Beatrice's Dream: A Story of Kibera Slum", a photo essay about an orphaned girl living in one of the largest slums in Africa. In 2012 I received a grant from the US Embassy in Nairobi to facilitate photography workshops for vulnerable adolescent girls, empowering them to tell their personal stories in photos. Between 2004-2010 I designed major photo exhibitions for the Headquarters of the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and the World AgroForestry Center in Nairobi. In the 1990's I worked as a news photographer and covered the war in Somalia and Sudan as well as famines, droughts and floods in the region. My photos were published in Time Magazine and Newsweek. I am represented by Corbis Photo Agency in New York City. I am currently living and working in New York City and divide my time between NYC and Kenya.