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Tiana Markova-Gold is a documentary photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from the full-time Photojournalism Program at the International Center of Photography in 2007 where she was the recipient of a New York Times Scholarship. She has traveled extensively through Latin America, Asia and Africa working on social documentary photography projects.

Since the spring of 2007, Tiana has been working on an in-depth project about the lives of women in prostitution in New York City. Her photographs of sex workers have been recognized in numerous photography awards contests including New York Photo Awards, PDN Photo Annual, American Photography and the International Photography Awards. In 2008, the project was a finalist for the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize and the Julia Dean New Documentarian Award. She was a finalist for the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Award from the Center of Documentary Studies at Duke University in 2009 for “If You Smoke Cigarettes in Public You Are a Prostitute: Women and Prostitution in Morocco”; a collaboration with writer Sarah Dohrmann.

In January 2009 she traveled throughout Asia on a photography fellowship from the Johnson & Johnson Foundation, photographing human services projects in nine countries across the region. In April and May 2009 she traveled to Nigeria and Brasil as the recipient of a fellowship from Global Fund for Children and the Nike Foundation, documenting the work of several local organizations whose aim is to empower, protect and educate adolescent girls.

Tiana continues to travel and work on social documentary projects exploring ways of using photography as a tool for engaging with people, creating forums for dialogue, increasing awareness, and helping facilitate change.