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10 Up And Coming Portrait Photographers
2. Malin Fezehai
https://twitter.com/malinfezehai/status/521450191866834945 Malin Fezehai has worked on projects about displacement and dislocation in Ethiopia, Haiti, Kiribati and Israel. Along the way, she's funded her travels by pitching editorial clients stories she's researched, from a travel feature on Ethiopia's Danakil desert to an essay on an Ethiopian wedding in Israel. If you are breaking into the business you have to come in with some fresh angle, because it's a very saturated market, Fezehai says. A photographer has to be more of a journalist.Fezehai, whose father is Eritrean, had heard about asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan who have been required under Israeli law to report to a detention center. She pitched the idea to Bicker, now at TIME. Published on TIME Lightbox, 'A Kind of Purgatory' earned international attention for an under-reported story on an immigration battle, and brought Fezehai's work to a large audience.
Sharing images on Instagram has also helped her credibility, because there is isn't always enough time to show off all her work in a thirty minute boardroom meeting.