ABOUT

Maggie Steber is an internationally renowned photographer whose work spans 72 countries, documenting humanitarian, cultural, and social stories with depth and empathy. Her numerous honors include a Guggenheim Foundation Grant, Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo Foundation Award, Overseas Press Club Award, Pictures of the Year, The Lucie Award, and the University of Missouri’s Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism. She has also received the Alicia Patterson and Ernst Haas grants, a Knight Foundation grant for the New American Newspaper project, and most recently, the 2023 Photography Content Creator Award from the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award in Dubai.

 

For more than three decades, Steber has devoted extensive work to Haiti, culminating in her Aperture-published monograph Dancing on Fire. In addition, she has published two other books, Rite of Passage and Anything Can Happen. National Geographic has featured her in 16 stories and recognized her as one of 11 Women of Vision with a book and a five-city U.S. exhibition in 2013. In 2018 she received the National Geographic Photographers’ Photographer Award.

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Steber has served as a Newsweek contract photographer and, in 1999, was named Managing Editor of Photography and Features at The Miami Herald, where she oversaw projects that earned a Pulitzer Prize and two finalist citations. Her photographs are housed in the Library of Congress, the University of Miami’s Richter Library, and private collections, and have been exhibited worldwide, including eight Leica galleries across the United States.

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Her clients include National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, The Guardian, AARP, and Geo among others. A dedicated mentor, Steber teaches internationally at institutions and festivals such as the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass, the International Center for Photography, Foundry Workshops, Leica Workshops, and the Obscura Photo Festival. She is currently a contributing photographer to VII Foundation.