Barbara Davidson

I am a photojournalist who has worked with vulnerable communities telling stories through a prisim of compassion for 2 decades. I have worked extensively with unhoused people in LA - as a photographer and unofficial case worker - and now I would like to try this work in a more formal capacity. I have a BFA but no "formal" training in casework. I have much-lived experience and am very comfortable working in marginalised communities. My resume will speak to my global experience.

A staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times until 2017, Davidson spent much of her career photographing women and children trapped in a culture of poverty and guns, war, natural disasters, unhoused communities in Los Angeles, and U.S. Presidential campaigns. Her photography is a vehicle for relaying intimate stories of human resilience around the world.

In Iraq, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Israel, Gaza, Kenya, and Somalia her images capture the essence of humanitarian crisis in the wake of war, while her photographs from the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the Sichuan earthquake in China reveal the horrific aftermath of natural disasters. Beyond war and environmental disasters, she has traveled widely for news assignments in Yemen, Nigeria, Rwanda, Nepal, and throughout the United States and Canada. She has extensively documented the housing crisis in Los Angeles and points many unhoused people in the right direction to receive services.

BFA in photography and Fim