Mimi Chakarova (
Bulgarian: Мими Чакърова) is a Bulgarian-American photographer and filmmaker. Chakarova grew up in Communist-era Bulgaria. Her best known work is likely ''
The Price of Sex'', a 2011 documentary about sex trafficking. Her other film work includes ''
The Hour'' (2005) and ''
Frontline/World
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(2002).'' Most recent is ''Men: A Love Story'' (2016).
She is the recipient of the
Dorothea Lange Fellowship for outstanding work in documentary photography. Chakarova's work has been recognized by being awarded the Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking, the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting, the
Magnum Photos Inge Morath Award (for her work on sex trafficking), and a
People's Voice Webby as well as a nomination for a News & Documentary
Emmy Award
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.
She taught photography at
UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and at
Stanford University
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’s African and African American Studies and Comparative Studies for Race and Ethnicity.
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20th-century births
Living people
American people of Bulgarian descent
American women journalists
American documentary filmmakers
American women documentary filmmakers
Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
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