Maggie Steber

Maggie Steber has worked as a documentary photographer in 59 countries. Her longtime work in Haiti received the prestigious Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant and the Ernst Haas Grant. A collection of the Haiti photographs was published in “Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti”, by Aperture. She was a contract photographer for
Newsweek Magazine for 4 years and has worked for several press agencies as well
as the Associated Press in New York as a photo editor.  She served as Asst. Managing Editor of Photography and Features at the Miami Herald from 1999-2002 and guided the photo staff projects to twice become Pulitzer Prize finalists and a third time as winner for coverage of the Elian Gonzalez story. In 2007, she received a grant from the Knight Foundation to design a new newspaper prototype through the new Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami. In 2008, she was invited to be one of the MASTERS at the World Press Photo Foundation’s Joop Swart classes and was honored guest speaker at the formal gathering of distinguished guests.