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Ron Haviv

Young girls leave a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) to gather firewood. For some the work will take more than 7 hours and lead them past government checkpoints and leave them exposed to attacks. All the people express fear and wish there were a more secure way to gather wood, essential for cooking in the camp. Girls as young as 8 have been raped, attacked and killed trying to get wood.
© Ron Haviv/VII

Ron Haviv has produced some of the most important images of conflict and other humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world since the end of the Cold War.

A co-founder of VII, whose work is published by top magazines worldwide including Fortune, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, Paris Match, and Stern. He has published two critically acclaimed collections of his photography, Blood and Honey: A Balkan Journal and Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul. He has contributed his wide-ranging body of work to several other books.

With a special focus on exposing human right violations, Ron Haviv has covered conflict and humanitarian crises in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Russia, and the Balkans. Most recently he has documented wars in Darfur and DR Congo.

His often searing photographs have earned Haviv some of the highest accolades in photography, including awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year, Overseas Press Club, and the Leica Medal of Excellence. He regularly lectures at universities and seminars. Numerous museums and galleries have featured his work, including the UN, the Louvre, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Haviv has been the central character in three films. National Geographic Explorer's Freelance in a World of Risk explores the hazards inherent in combat photography. The Serbian made documentary Vivisect explores Serbian reaction to the Blood and Honey exhibit. Eyes of the World, which was featured in film festivals worldwide, examines Haviv as a witness to war. In addition, Haviv has spoken about his work on The Charlie Rose Show, NPR, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, and MSNBC.

In 2005, Haviv spent part of the summer in Darfur/Sudan, where he took his fotos. He was asked by UNICEF to travel to Darfur in June 2005.

For more information about Ron Haviv's work visit VII's Web site:
www.viiphoto.com

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