Mimi Chakarova

Mimi Chakarova (Bulgarian: Мими Чакърова) is s Bulgarian-American photographer and filmmaker. Her best known work is likely the 2011 The Price of Sex documentary. Her other film making work included The Hour (2005) and Frontline/World (2002). Most recent is Men: A Love Story (2016).

She is the recipient of the Dorothea Lange Fellowship for outstanding work in documentary photography. Chakarova's work has been recognized with the Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking, the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting, the Magnum Photos Inge Morath Award (for her work on sex trafficking), and a People's Voice Webby as well as a nomination for a News & Documentary Emmy Award.

She also teaches photography at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and at Stanford University’s African and African American Studies and Comparative Studies for Race and Ethnicity.

References

• "Magazine: Going undercover as a sex worker". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
• "Mimi Chakarova". journalism.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
• "Lange Fellowship - Mimi Chakarova - 2003 Fellow". www.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
• "UN.GIFT interview with filmmaker Mimi Chakarova". www.ungift.org. Retrieved 2015-06-21.

External links

• Homepage