Tiana Markova-Gold
Photographer / Based in Brooklyn, New York
Tiana Markova-Gold is a documentary photographer and full spectrum doula based in Brooklyn, New York. She has traveled extensively, creating visual stories with a focus on issues impacting women and girls. She has been a workshop facilitator, guest lecturer, and collaborator with numerous organizations globally, including Kudirat Initiative for Democracy in Lagos, Nigeria, 100% Mamans in Tangier, Morocco, and Healthy Options Project Skopje in Macedonia. Tiana’s work addresses ideas and experiences around sexuality, motherhood, empowerment, marginalization, representation and choice.
Since the birth of her daughter in 2019, she has shifted the focus of her work to creating intimate portrayals of pregnancy, birth, early childhood and parenthood. She approaches each photo session with the sensitivity and experience she has gained, not just as a photographer, but also in her training and work as a full spectrum doula and in her own life as the mother of a wild and beautiful six year old daughter.
Tiana was the recipient of the NY Times Scholarship to attend the full-time Photojournalism Program at the International Center of Photography in 2006-07. While there, she co-founded Sombra Projects, a collective platform for socially conscious art and documentary media. Tiana’s photographs have been recognized in numerous photography contests including Pictures of the Year International, New York Photo Awards, PDN Photo Annual and American Photography. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Sasha Wolf Gallery, Exit Art, New York Photo Festival and HOST Gallery in London, England, among others, and has been featured at several international photography festivals including Lumix Festival of Young Photojournalism in Hannover, Germany, LagosPhoto Festival in Lagos, Nigeria and GuatePhoto in Guatemala City.
Her work has earned her several fellowships and grants including a Camera Club of New York Darkroom Residency, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography and the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for her collaboration with writer Sarah Dohrmann about prostitution and the marginalization of women in Morocco. Her first solo show, Scènes et Types, featuring her work in Morocco, opened in April 2013 at the Camera Club of New York.