The Team
Daniella Zalcman, Founder & Executive Director
daniella@womenphotograph.com | dan.iella.net | @dzalcman | @dzalcman
Daniella Zalcman is a Vietnamese-American documentary photographer and Tulane professor based in New Orleans. Her work tends to focus on the legacies of western colonization, from the rise of homophobia in East Africa to the forced assimilation education of Indigenous children in North America. Her ongoing project, Signs of Your Identity, is the recipient of the Arnold Newman Prize, a Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award, the FotoEvidence Book Award, the Magnum Foundation's Inge Morath Award, and part of Open Society Foundation's Moving Walls 24. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in architecture.
Sara Ickow, Managing Director
sara@womenphotograph.com | @sasickow | @sasickow
Sara Ickow is the Senior Manager, Exhibitions and Collections at the International Center of Photography. Previously, she worked as a Curatorial Assistant and Collections Manager with the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in their Department of Photographs and as a freelance collections manager. She holds an MA in art history from NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, where she studied photography and time-based media art and wrote her thesis on Walker Evans in the 1930s. Her BA from Trinity College, Connecticut is in French and Art History.
Lexi Parra, Community Manager
lexi@womenphotograph.com | lexiparra.com | @lexigraceparra | @lexigraceparra
Lexi Parra is a Venezuelan-American photographer and community educator based between Caracas and New York. Her work focuses on youth culture, the personal effects of inequality and violence, and themes of resilience. Parra has worked with The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker and others. In Caracas, she runs “Project MiRA” a photo education initiative for young women. Her degree is in Photography and Human Rights, from Bard College.
Piera Moore, Coordinator
piera@womenphotograph.com | pieramoore.com | @slumpiera
Piera Moore is a photographer born and based in Atlanta, Georgia, with a Bachelor's in Studio Art from Spelman College. Shooting primarily on medium format film, she explores Black life with a philosophical, contemplative, and cinematic approach. Her work and practice pull inspiration from topics surrounding science, faith, metaphysics, human society and culture, and the depiction of Black and Brown narratives on screen. She has worked with TIME, Vogue, The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, NBC News, and The Cut.
Board of Directors
The Women Photograph Board of Directors is made up of (L-R):
Elizabeth Krist (President), Yukiko Yamagata (secretary), Endia Beal, Amy Yenkin, & Daniella Zalcman.
Past Board of Directors:
Mallory Benedict, Debi Cornwall, Preston Gannaway, John Edwin Mason
Advisory Committee
L-R: Uma Bista (Nepal), Celeste Noche (USA), Greta Rico (Mexico), Isabella Lanave (Brazil),
Hanna-Katrina Jedrosz (United Kingdom), and Svetlana Bulatova (Russia)