2008 Professional Winner

Stephanie Sinclair is a VII Network contributing photographer since January, 2008, based in Beirut, Lebanon. From July, 2003 to December, 2007, she worked for Corbis in Iraq and Lebanon. From 1998 to 2003, she was a staff photographer at the Chicago Tribune.

She graduated from the University of Florida in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Mass Communications with an outside concentration in Fine Art Photography. In the summer of 1993 she studied French at the University of Paris - La Sorbonne. During her time in school, she had internships at the Miami Herald, Arizona Republic, St. Petersburg Times, and the Detroit Free-Press.

Since 1999 she has been the publisher of Photobetty.com, the award-winning online publication for women in photography.

Some awards include:

  • 2007 UNICEF Photo of the Year
  • 2007 World Press Photo Third Place for coverage of the 2006 war in Lebanon
  • 2006 Selected for World Press Photo’s 13th Joop Swart Masterclass
  • 2004 Fifty Crows International Fund for Documentary Photography's Central Asia and Caucasus Grant
  • 2003 World Press Photo First Place Contemporary Issues Single for a story on self-immolation in Afghanistan
  • 2001 Pulitzer Prize for “Gateway to Gridlock,” awarded to Chicago Tribune staff for a series on the American air travel system. One of Stephanie’s photographs was the lead image in the second day of the three part series.