Books / Documentary Projects

Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Lydia Chávez; Photographs by Mimi Chakarova
Published by Duke University Press, Spring 2005

2008 NOMINEE FOR THE 29th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS ANNOUNCED BY THE
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES, NEW APPROACHES TO NEWS & DOCUMENTARY
PROGRAMMING: ARTS, LIFESTYLE & CULTURE

2008 WEBBY AWARDS People's Voice Winner, Online Film & Video, News & Politics: Individual Episode
"Dubai: Night Secrets," reported and produced by Mimi Chakarova.

FRONTLINE/World's first launch of a new web series, flashPOINT, features "The Price of Sex."
Chakarova takes us to Moldova where she captures the lives of young women trafficked into the sex trade.
March 2007

FRONTLINE/World's Rough Cut video, "Night Secrets," was reported and produced by Mimi Chakarova.
It is an undercover story about prostitution in Dubai, which has come to be known as the Las Vegas of the
Persian Gulf. September 2007

CBS News' "60 Minutes" reports on Dubai in A Visit To Dubai Inc., featuring some of Chakarova's
photographs from "Night Secrets." October 14, 2007

Kashmir
Photographs and Essays

India’s railway children
Christian Science Monitor, 2004

Moldova fights traffic in women for sex
San Francisco Chronicle, 2004

The Children of Chernobyl: Radiation Treatment
Cuba, 2002

Mental illness: Profiles
Oakland, California, 2000-present

Genital female circumcision
Ghana, Africa 2002

Humanities research project in Jamaica
West Indies 1998-2001

Living conditions in South Africa’s post-apartheid townships
2000-2001