Stephanie Sinclair
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With blood on his shirt, an injured Hussein Ra'ad looks for family members inside his home which is located next door to the International Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. Car bombers struck the ICRC and four police stations across Baghdad on Monday, killing about 40 people in a spree of destruction that terrorized the Iraqi capital on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, according to police and Red Cross reports. The attack, just two months after the bombing of the UN, forced the ICRC to evacuate Iraq. Oct. 27, 2003. PHOTO BY STEPHANIE SINCLAIR/CORBIS
Stephanie Sinclair, 31, is a Corbis Assignment Photographer who is based in Beirut, Lebanon. Stephanie graduated from the University of Florida, with a BA in Journalism and a minor in Fine Art Photography. The Chicago Tribune hired Stephanie after she finished college and she worked for them for five years. It was during her last year at the Tribune that she discovered her love for photographing news and social issues in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
After covering the war in Iraq, Stephanie quit her job and joined Corbis to be based in Baghdad and work out of the region. She has since been published in Time, Newsweek, Fortune, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Stern and Marie Claire among others.
Stephanie is also the editor and publisher of the award-winning independent online magazine for women photographers entitled Photobetty. Her interest in documentary photography was a direct influence of realist paintings, created by her mother, that surrounded her at home in Miami, Florida.
Stephanie has since tried to make thoughtful images that provide the viewer with an intimate look at the different types of issues and people that make up societies around the world. In her short career, she has earned several awards and scholarships including the Visa Award at this year’s Image photography festival in France and a first place award in World Press Photo for her work on women’s issues in Afghanistan. Stephanie has also earned several awards in the Pictures of the Year International annual competition including a first place for a story she did on courthouse weddings in Chicago. The Chicago Bar Association's Herman Kogan Meritorious Achievement Award 2000 was awarded to her for her involvement in a series that the Chicago Tribune produced on the failure of eath penalty in Illinois, which influenced Governor Ryan’s decision to place a moratorium on capital punishment in the state. Stephanie was also part of the journalism team that won the Pulitzer Prize for their documentation of problems within the airline industry in 2000.