war, postwar, migration, water, gender
Colombia, France, Ukraine
Nastassia Kantorowicz Torres is a Colombian freelance visual nonfiction artist and photojournalist whose work is centered around driving change through visual communication. She is a freelance photojournalist, stringer for SIPA Press and a member of Women Photograph. She is based between Kyiv, Ukraine and Paris, France. Her focus is on post-war actions during war, migration, water and the underlying social bonds of communities through a gender-based perspective.
Nastassia was the recipient of the 2018 Documentary Essay Prize of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She was an International Women's Foundation (IMSF) Women on The Ground: Reporting from Ukraine’s Unseen Frontlines fellow, IWMF's 2019 Adelante Fellow (Colombia/ Venezuela Fellow) and a National Geographic COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists 2020 grant recipient.
Before photography, she worked in development projects in Colombia and as a humanitarian aid worker with Doctors without Borders (MSF) in Eastern African countries. During the Pandemic, Nastassia took a break from photography consulting for Colombian foundations and NGOs. She also holds a master’s degree in Public Affairs from Sciences-Po Paris. In 2017, she completed a postgraduate certificate in Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism from the International Center of Photography (New York City, USA).