Maggie Steber is an internationally known documentary photographer, photo editor and educator. She has worked in 72 countries specializing in telling the stories of underrepresented people. Best known for her photo essays in National Geographic Magazine and her humanistic documentation of Haiti, she published Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti with Aperture. Her nine-year project on her mother’s melancholic voyage through memory loss was made into a multimedia presentation by MediaStorm and won a Webby award.
In her career Steber worked as a picture editor for Associated Press, a contract photographer for Newsweek, and as the Director of Photography at The Miami Herald. Steber.
She is a member of VII Photo Agency and Foundation. Besides major publications,
Her photographs are included in the Library of Congress and she exhibits internationally.

Among Steber’s awards are:

—2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Nat Geo Face Transplant Story

—2019 Lucie Foundation Award for Photography

—2017-2018 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow

—2007 Knight Foundation grant for New American Newspaper Project

—2003 Medal of Honor for Contribution to Journalism, University of Missouri

—First Prize Spot News World Press Photo Foundation for Haiti

—The Leica Medal of Excellence

—Olivier Rebbot Award from the Overseas Press Club

—First Prize Magazine News/Documentary NPPA PICTURES OF THE YEAR

—Recipient Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant

—Recipient Ernst Haas Photography Grant