| Exhibits / Lectures / Awards
The U.S. Department of State has requested copies of THE PRICE OF SEX to use for training at the
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons as well as embassies around the world.
THE PRICE OF SEX is nominated for the 2012 American Library Association Notable Videos
for Adults. Some of last year's winners include Food, Inc. and Marwencol.
THE PRICE OF SEX screened at The Frontline Club in London on July 11th. FRONTLINE champions
independent journalism by bringing together the key players and thinkers in politics and the media and
giving viewers an opportunity not only to hear from experts but to ask questions and contribute to the
discussion.
THE PRICE OF SEX premiers in New York at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival
at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, June 24-26. Chakarova will be awarded the 2011 Nestor
Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking on June 26th. The event is presented in
association with the International Center of Photography and the Dart Center for Journalism
and Trauma. For additional screenings of the film, visit priceofsex.org.
THE PRICE OF SEX will screen at the AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival
on June 21st at 1:30 PM and on June 22nd at 6:15 PM.
REVERSE ANGLE, WHEN THE FILMMAKER IS IN THE FILM, June 22nd at 1:00 PM;
Moderated & Curated by Katy Chevigny, Co-Founder and Sr. Director, Arts Engine
– Steve James, Filmmaker (HOOP DREAMS, STEVIE, AT THE DEATH HOUSE DOOR,
THE INTERRUPTERS)
– Chico Colvard, Filmmaker (FAMILY AFFAIR)
– Mimi Chakarova, Filmmaker (THE PRICE OF SEX)
The 2011 Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference, Saturday, June 11th, Orlando, FL.
"How to Collaborate and Investigate Across Borders"
– Mimi Chakarova, independent journalist
– David Kaplan, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
– Ron Nixon, The New York Times
– Oriana Zill, Frontline
As part of the Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar Program, Chakarova will present
a series of lectures on her investigative and documentary work for graduate students
from around the world
at the following two universities in Europe:
• City University London, England, March 14-21, 2011
• Aarhus University and the Danish School of Media and Journalism, March 21-April 1, 2011
FiftyCrows Gallery – Social Change Photography, Solo Exhibit
49 Geary, San Francisco, CA, April 8 - May 15, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION: April 15th • 4:00-7:30 PM
Featured Speaker – Selling Bodies, Stealing Lives: The Global Sex
Slavery Crisis in the 21st Century, 2010 Sex Trafficking Conference
South Texas College, April 6-9, 2010
Keynote Speaker, 2010 Stop Traffic Now Conference, The University of Missouri,
Columbia, February 27, 2010
FOTOWEEK DC 2009, Iraqi Voices - Curated by Lucian Perkins and featuring the
work of ten renown photographers, Iraqi Voices provides a human face to the Iraqi
population largely ignored by the media's coverage of the war in Iraq. Work by:
Andrea Bruce, Mimi Chakarova, Lori Grinker, Amro Hamzawi, Chris Hondros, Farah
Nosh, Robert Nickelsberg, Moises Saman, Peter Van Agtmael, and members of
Associated Press, Washington DC, November 7-14
MOMENTUM 2009 Speaker, Conflict plenary, Sponsored by the Tides Foundation
San Francisco, September 7-9
2009 IRE Conference Speaker, "Covering Invisible Populations," Sponsored by the Dart
Center for Journalism and Trauma, Baltimore, June 11-14
Participant: Teaching Trauma Workshop; Sponsored by the Dart Center for Journalism &
Trauma and the Center for Global Studies at the University of Washington
San Francisco State University, April 24-25, 2009
Featured Speaker: Slavery in the 21st Century, 2009 Sex Trafficking Conference
South Texas College, April 2009
NOMINEE FOR THE 29th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS,
THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES; New Approaches
to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture
Foreign Correspondent Training Course, Transitions Online
Prague, Czech Republic, July 2008
2008 WEBBY AWARDS People's Voice Winner, Online Film & Video,
News & Politics: Individual Episode
"Dubai: Night Secrets," reported and produced by Mimi Chakarova.
Featured Speaker and Art Exhibit: "What We Leave Behind"
Sex Trafficking Conference: Addressing the Demand
South Texas College, April 2008
World Slavery Awareness Week, Social Justice League
Washburn University, Sociology/Anthropology Department, February 2008
Foreign Correspondent Training Course, Transitions Online
Prague, Czech Republic, July 2007
Photo Reportage of Sex Trafficking in Eastern Europe / Summer Research Grant
Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley, June 2007
Keynote Speaker: "The Price of Sex," Human Trafficking Conference
South Texas College, April 2007
Panelist, "Why Should I Care?: Bringing Remote Stories Home," Third Annual International
Reporting Conference
Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley, April 2007
Guest Speaker and Photography Judge, Wisconsin News Photographers Association
Milwaukee Art Museum, March 2007
Keynote Speaker, Women and War Conference
South Texas College, April 2006
What's On Her Mind? Sex Trafficking
of Young Women in Eastern Europe
Saint Mary's College of California, November 2005.
Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program,
the Women's Resource Center, and Amnesty International
Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the 21st Century
Photography exhibit and book party, September 7 – December 15, 2006
Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
2005 Magnum Photos Inge Morath Award
for photo reportage on trafficking of young women
in Eastern Europe
Photography Visiting Lecturer, California College of the Arts
Oakland, California, 2004-05
Visiting Lecturer, University of Beijing
School of Journalism and Communication, March
2005
World Affairs Council of Northern California
Photographs of Kashmir, San Francisco, January
31 –- March 31, 2005
Don't look back: Photographs of Eastern
Europe
Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley, 2004
2004 Distinguished Faculty Mentor Nominee
UC Berkeley
Visiting Lecturer, University of Kashmir, India
The 2003 Dorothea Lange Fellowship
for outstanding work in documentary photography
Photo Alliance
Photography Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute,
October 2002
The SoHo International Art Exhibition
Agora Gallery, West Broadway, New York, July 26
–-August 15, 2002
Stanford University, African & African-American
Studies Winter 2002 Lecture Series
January 18, 2002: A Documentary Photographer's
Journey”
The Swedish American Museum Center
Chicago, Illinois,
October 2001
Silent auction for Sarah's Circle, a drop-in center, safe
refuge and fresh start
for women who are homeless, transient and of
low income.
EXPOSED: Contemporary Photography in the New Millennium
Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, New York, September
19 –- October 22, 2001
The Center for Photography
“The Distance Between Us” Solo Exhibit
Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley,
April 9-May 4, 2001
Bechtel International Center
Solo Exhibit and Lecture
Stanford University, April 5 –- May 1, 2001
TD An Installation Space
Solo Photography Exhibit, Mimi Chakarova: Recent
Work,”
South
Park, San Francisco, February 15- March 22, 2001
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