photographer – information operator

2012-2014 TED Senior Fellow

project director: www.basetrack.org

base: New York.
Area of focus: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir.

http://about.me/terukuwayama

US mobile: +1 408 357 4559
email: teru@kuwayama.com
twitter/skype/facebook: terukuwayama

Awards and Fellowships:

TED Senior Fellowship 2012
Knight News Challenge Award 2010
Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship 2010
Knight Foundation Newschallenge Award 2010
TED Global Fellowship 2010
John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University 2009-2010
Dorthea Lange-Paul Taylor award 2009 South Asian Journalists Association Fellowship 2009
Rory Peck Trust Bursary Award 2008
NYC Urban Artists Initiative Fellowship 2008
Alicia Patterson Fellowship 2006
W. Eugene Smith Fellowship 2006
Nikon Storyteller Award 2006
Days Japan International Photojournalism Award, Jury Prize 2006
Photo District News, Best of Photography 2003, 2004, 2006
Photo District News “Icons of Photography” 2005
Esquire magazine “Best and Brightest, The Iraq Generation” 2004
Dorthea Lange-Paul Taylor award 2004
honorable mention Overseas Press Club, Oliver Rebbot award 2004
honorable mention Bettman 100 award 2003
Communication Arts award 2003
Marty Forscher award 2003
New York Foundation for the Arts award 2002
Yann Geffroy award, 2000
Photo District News Thirty Under Thirty: Emerging Photographers 2000
Alexia Award for World Peace 1999

Exhibitions:
Generation 9/11 The Hague 2011
The Streaming Museum NYC 2011
Texas Christian University, 2010
Bayeux Festival of War Reporting, Normandy, France 2009
Amnesty International Human Rights Festival – Jersey, Channel Islands 2009
Dokufoto – Prizren, Kosovo 2008
Sideshow Gallery – Brooklyn, NY 2008
Gallery 6, Staten Island NY 2008 FCB Gallery – New York City 2008, 2006
Leica Gallery – Solms, Germany 2007
Photographic Gallery – New York City 2006
United Nations Headquarters – New York City 2006
The Half King – New York City 2003
Espace Dupon – Paris 2001
Margaret Bodell Gallery – New York City 2000
Open Society Institute – “Moving Walls” – New York City 1999
CBGBs 313 Gallery – New York City – 1998

Projections: Edinburgh Film Festival – Edinburgh, Scotland 2011 Photo Folie festival – Rodez, France 2008 Dokufest film festival – Prizren, Kosovo 2008 Festival of the Photograph – Charlottesville Virginia, USA 2008 Angkor Photo festival – Siem Reap, Cambodia 2004 Les Rencontres d’Arles photo festival – Arles, France 2003

Lectures: World Affairs Council, Monterey, CA 2010 Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA 2009 Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, NC 2009
Frontline Club, London, UK 2009 Jersey Arts Center, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands 2009
Eastman House Museum of Photography, Rochester NY 2008 Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 2008 Montclair State University, Montclair NJ 2007 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY 2000

Other:
Co-author: The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, The New Press, 2004.
Founder: Lightstalkers: a global web-based network of photographers, journalists and unconventional travelers. (www.lightstalkers.org)
Curator: Battlespace: Unrealities of War (www.battlespaceonline.org)
Executive Director: November Eleven, a non-profit organization supporting the arts, independent media and crisis response efforts. (www.novembereleven.org)

Education: State University of New York, Albany BFA 1993

Workshops: KDMC Independent Journalists Workshop 2009
Centurion Hostile Environments and First Aid Course 2009
World Press Photo Masterclass 2000 Associated Press Diverse Visions Workshop 1994
Eddie Adams Workshop 1993