About Evelyn Hockstein

Evelyn Hockstein is an award-winning photojournalist currently based in Washington, DC. She spent the last six years documenting news and features in Africa. Prior to that she was based in Jerusalem covering the Israeli -Palestinian conflict. Hockstein graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Diplomatic History and Political Science.

Her award winning photography work has been published globally in The New York Times, The New Yorker, TIME, Newsweek, Stern, Conde Nast Traveler, and Glamour Magazine, among others.

Honors Include:
Pictures of the Year International, 2006, Award of Excellence

Days International Photojournalism Award, 2005
Series on Darfur Refugees and Rape Victims

John's Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Pew International Journalism Fellow, 2002

National Press Photographers Association, Best of Photojournalism 2002

Pulitzer Prize Nominee, 2001 for coverage of child slavery in West Africa.