Sumaya Agha
Photographer / Based in Portland, OR
Sumaya Agha is a freelance photographer from Northern California, who has spent over four years documenting the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan and Eastern Europe. She is of Syrian descent with many aunts, uncles and cousins still living...
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Focus:
Photographer, Documentary, Photography, Portraiture
Skills:
Image Archiving, Photo Editing, Black & White Printing, Photojournalism
About
Available in: Portland, OR
Focused on:
Photographer, Documentary, Photography, Portraiture
Skilled at:
Image Archiving, Photo Editing, Black & White Printing, Photojournalism
Coverage Regions:
Africa Europe Middle East USA & Canada
Languages Spoken: Englis; conversational Arabic
Sumaya Agha is a freelance photographer from Northern California, who has spent over four years documenting the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan and Eastern Europe. She is of Syrian descent with many aunts, uncles and cousins still living in Damascus. Sumaya holds a BS in Applied Art and Design with a concentration in Photography from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, CA, and an MPA from Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Her work has appeared in Huffington Post, BBC Focus on Africa, Forbes Africa, and NPR.org, and was a still photographer for the Academy Award winning film "The Fog of War." She has lived in Syria, Liberia, and Jordan.