tiana markova-gold
brooklyn, new york

Biography:
Tiana Markova-Gold is a Brooklyn-based documentary photographer. She graduated from the full-time Photojournalism Program at the International Center of Photography in 2007 where she was awarded a New York Times Scholarship. She has traveled extensively through the Caribbean, Central America, South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Some of her most in-depth work has been in Haiti where she spent three months in 2004 documenting Haitian life and culture during the tumultuous time leading up to and following Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s departure. During the summer of 2005 she spent four weeks in West Africa working on a story about literacy in the Tuareg community of northern Niger. rn Tiana is currently working on a long-term project about the lives of sex workers in New York City. Her work has recently been recognized in several photography awards contests including PDN Photo Annual 2008, American Photography 24, New York Photo Awards 2008 and Prix de la Photographie 2008


Portfolio:   http://tianamarkovagold.com