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Tiana Markova-Gold is a freelance documentary photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. She was awarded a New York Times Scholarship to attend the full-time Photojournalism Program at the International Center of Photography in 2006-07. She has traveled extensively, documenting social issues with a particular focus on women and girls.

Tiana’s photographs have been recognized in numerous photography contests including Pictures of the Year International, New York Photo Awards, PDN Photo Annual, American Photography and the International Photography Awards. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Sasha Wolf gallery, Exit Art, New York Photo Festival, HOST gallery in London, England and the Lumix Festival of Young Photojournalism in Hannover, Germany. She is a 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Photography and was awarded the 2010 Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for If You Smoke Cigarettes in Public You Are a Prostitute: Women and Prostitution in Morocco, a collaboration with writer Sarah Dohrmann.