Simba Russeau

Simba Russeau is an award winning Beirut based multimedia storyteller.

Simba has reported from East Timor,South Korea, Philippines, Haiti, Japan, the US, Dubai and Lebanon.

For 4 years she worked as an assignment editor for Pacifica Radio’s Free Speech Radio News. A daily national and international radio news program.

Simba’s work, as a photographer and writer, has been published in World Environment Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine Sowar Magazine, Le Monde, Internazionale, The Guardian Weekly, Inter Press Service, Menassat.com, IRIN News Agency and Lebanon’s Daily Star.

She has organized and conducted multimedia workshops with kids of migrant workers, street kids and ex-prisoners in Lebanon.

Recently Simba was awarded the Every Human Has Rights Award and has had online exhibitions with Global Reporting Initiative and The International Museum of Women.

Currently she is working on photo essays documenting displaced faces around the world, migrant workers, Afro-Arabs and women in the MENA region.

As a student of the martial arts, Simba believes it’s important to appreciate your life and train hard everyday to develop better character and purpose, which is why she has dedicated her life to documenting social issues.

TAO OF PHOTOGRAPHY:

“Mountains are a beautiful thing. Moving mountains are even nicer. Finally able to feel what you’re made of.”—Simba Russeau

“The name Simba came before Disney. It actually means lion/lioness or power in Swahili, which is a language they speak in East and Southern Africa. Learning about other cultures is a good way to combat ignorance.” -Simba Russeau