Jodi Bieber: Biography

Jodi Bieber is a South African photographer based in London. Her work takes a close look at the social wars within society. Though South Africa is her passion, her work has taken her to many other countries, including the rest of Africa, Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan.

She began her career by covering the period leading up to the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994. After participating in the World Press Photo master class in 1996, her career expanded to the foreign media. She has also collaborated with several nonprofit organizations.

Bieber has received eight World Press Photo awards, a gold award at the Society of Publications Designers Awards for her work covering the Ebola crisis in Uganda, and a best cover design at the British Media Awards for her project on domestic violence in South Africa.

Her work has been included in many international group exhibitions, and she had her first solo exhibition at Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignon, France, in 2001. Her first book, Between Dogs and Wolves-Growing up with South Africa, which includes highlights from a decade of work in South Africa, was published in 2006.