About

Liza Faktor

Russia/USA

She was the founding director of the Objective Reality Foundation, and the co-founder of Agency.Photographer.ru.

Liza has produced installations and multi-platform visual documentary projects including The Northern Pass by Dominic Bracco (2017), Flint is a Place by Zackary Canepari (2016-2017, IDFA official selection), and Streaming Nation by Alexey Layfurov (2014, IDFA official selection).

She curated over 20 exhibitions including the Surveillance series (Dubai, 2015, NY, 2014), Stories of Life: the best of multimedia journalism (Moscow, 2013), PhotoQuai Biennale (Paris, 2013 and 2015), and Projections of Reality (Washington, DC, Moscow, 2010).

She is a recipient of the Howard Chapnick award for advancement of photojournalism (2002 and 2016) and was a jury member of the 2014 World Press Photo Multimedia Contest and the 2017 World Press Photo Digital Storytelling Contest.

Liza Faktor