Kate Brooks

At age 20, while studying Russian and photography, Kate became actively involved in the plight of Russian orphans, starting a non-profit aid group to help the children at an institution outside of Moscow, while documenting their lives. The resulting photographs{{Cite web|url=http://www.katebrooks.com/|title=Intro|first=Neon Sky Creative Media|last=System|website=Katebrooks.com|access-date=10 March 2022}} were published in Human Rights Watch's (HRW) report entitled "Abandoned by the State: Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages"{{Cite web |url=http://www.p-ced.com/reference/russ98d.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-07-19 |archive-date=2011-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003191418/http://www.p-ced.com/reference/russ98d.pdf |url-status=dead }} and syndicated worldwide through Saba Press Photos. The campaign for orphans' rights galvanized global interest and raised funds to help orphaned children. She has worked as a freelance photojournalist ever since.{{cite web |url=http://www.commerce.commarts.com/shop/detail.asp?prod=ISS200911 |title=Communication Arts 2009 November/December Design Annual 50 |website=Commerce.commarts.com |date=2000-01-01 |access-date=2011-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003181446/http://www.commerce.commarts.com/shop/detail.asp?prod=ISS200911 |archive-date=2011-10-03 |url-status=dead }}

Immediately after the September 11 attacks, Brooks was ordered to move to Pakistan to photograph the impact of U.S. foreign policy on the region and life in post-Taliban Afghanistan. In 2003, she covered the American invasion of Iraq and the beginning of the insurgency for Time Magazine.{{cite web |url=http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/1921 |title=Kate Brooks |publisher=Charlie Rose |date=2003-05-26 |access-date=2011-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013052734/http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/1921 |archive-date=2012-10-13 |url-status=dead }}

Since then, Brooks has continued to work across the region, photographing news and the impact of conflict on civilian populations, notably the Cedar Revolution, Pakistan earthquake,{{cite web|last=Brooks |first=Kate |url=http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0511/dis_brooks.html |title=Open Wound |publisher=The Digital Journalist |date=2005-10-08 |access-date=2011-10-04}} 2006 Lebanon war,{{cite web|url=http://www.poyi.org/64/21/ae01.php |title=Award of Excellence | Magazine Spot News |website=Poyi.org |date= |access-date=2011-10-04}} Iraqi refugee exodus, clashes in Nahr al-Bared,{{cite web|url=http://www.ai-ap.com/gallery/AI/?page=5&search=kate%20brooks |title=Kate Brooks |website=Ai-ap.com |date= |access-date=2011-10-04}} Afghan elections,{{cite web|url=http://www.ai-ap.com/gallery/AI/?page=1&search=kate%20brooks |title=Kate Brooks |website=Ai-ap.com |date=2009-08-16 |access-date=2011-10-04}} aftermath of Operation Cast Lead in Gaza,{{cite web|last=McGirk |first=Tim |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1874850,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201131259/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1874850,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 1, 2009 |title=Voices from The Rubble |publisher=TIME |date=2009-01-29 |access-date=2011-10-04}} Swat Valley refugee crisis and protests in Tahrir Square.

Brooks has photographed military and political leaders such as former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for Time magazine,{{cite web|last=Baker |first=Aryn |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,570262,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008010546/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,570262,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 8, 2008 |title=Can This Man Survive? |publisher=TIME |date=2004-01-05 |access-date=2011-10-04}} President Asif Ali Zardari for The New York Times Magazine, Afghan President Hamid Karzai for GQ{{cite web|author=Robert Draper |url=https://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/200604/hamid-karzai-afghanistan-leader-muslim-moderate |title=The Wrong Man For the Job: Newsmakers |publisher=GQ |date=2009-10-13 |access-date=2011-10-04}} and Time,{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/heroes/karzai.html|title=The Lone Man Without a Gun|last=McGirk |first=Tim |publisher=TIME |access-date=July 29, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100401101159/http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/heroes/karzai.html |archivedate=April 1, 2010 }} General Stanley McChrystal for The Atlantic cover story by Robert Kaplan, King Abdullah II and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri.

Her photographs have also appeared in The New Yorker,{{cite magazine|last=Johnson |first=Whitney |url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/02/kate-brooks.html |title=Photo Booth: Kate Brooks's Journey After 9/11 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=2011-08-01 |access-date=2011-10-04}} Smithsonian, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Vanity Fair Italy, and The Wall Street Journal{{cite web|last=Cullison |first=Alan |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704655004575114623837930294 |title=Wounded Soldiers Have Increased Odds of Survival |website=Online.wsj.com |date=2010-04-02 |access-date=2011-10-04}}

Brooks was a Knight-Wallace Fellow in Journalism in 2012–2013.Bohn, John.

[https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/11photojournalist-presents-decade-long-work-middle-east14 "Knight-Wallace Fellow Kate Brooks to discuss decade-long work in Middle East,"] The Michigan Daily (November 14, 2012).

• No Woman's Land: On the Frontlines with Female Reporters (2012){{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/No-Womans-Land-Frontlines-Reporters-ebook/dp/B0081ST2VG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=WOR1E430FV3N&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.n7PQ3jWfEQ6L-orGYzHIj6frD_BeHKZHBVgoXSCKbAPGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.L2EPrZJH0MkB0fAcT_0TAzvMX4nDTEDzh9qwMxjBebg&dib_tag=se&keywords=no+womensland&qid=1717228431&sprefix=no+womensland |title=No Woman's Land: On the Frontlines with Female Reporters |publisher=Amazon |access-date=2024-06-17}}
• In the Light of Darkness: A Photographer’s Journey After 9/11 (2011){{cite book |title=In The Light Of Darkness: A Photographer's Journey After 9/11 |isbn=9053307583 }}

• [https://www.thelastanimals.com The Last Animals] (2017){{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8813676/ |title=The Last Animals (2017) |publisher=IMDb |access-date=2024-06-17}} directed by Brooks was about man-caused mass animal extinction. The documentary premiered at Tribeca Film Festival{{cite web |url=https://tribecafilm.com/films/last-animals-2017 |title = Viewpoints: The Last Animals |publisher=Tribeca |access-date=2024-06-17}} where Brooks was awarded a Disruptor Award.{{cite web |url=https://www.disruptorawards.com/2017-honorees |title=2017 Honorees |publisher=Disruptor Awards| access-date=2024-06-17}} For two years she campaigned{{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B628JpPJ0I&t=1746s |title=Bills Comm on Protection of Endangered Species of Animals and Plants Bill 2017 (Pt1)(2017/09/06) |date=5 September 2017 |publisher=Legislative Council of HKSAR (YouTube) |access-date=2024-06-17}} for ivory and rhino horn bans while the film travelled the film festival circuit around the world. In 2018, The Last Animals won the Impact Award{{cite web |url=https://realscreen.com/2018/10/19/rise-of-the-warrior-apes-blue-planet-ii-take-wildscreen-panda-awards/ |title="Rise of the Warrior Apes", "Blue Planet II" take Wildscreen Panda Awards| publisher=Realscreen |access-date=2024-06-17}} at Wildscreen{{cite web |url=https://wildscreen.org/2018-wildscreen-panda-award-winners-revealed/ |title=2018 Wildscreen Panda Award Winners Revealed |date=15 August 2018 |publisher=Wildscreen |access-date=2024-06-17}} in competition with Blue Planet II. In 2019 the film was broadcast globally by National Geographic,{{cite web |url=https://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2019/04/16/national-geographic-premiere-documentary-the-last-animals-earth-day/ |title=National Geographic to Premiere Documentary "The Last Animals" on Earth Day |author=Laughing Place Disney Newsdesk |publisher=Laughing Place |date=2019-04-16 |access-date=2024-06-17}} streamed on Hulu in the U.S and Netflix overseas.
• The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2011){{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2391069/ |title=The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2011) |publisher=IMDb |access-date=2024-06-17}} directed by Ariel Nassar was about a group of young Afghan women dream of representing their country as boxers at the 2012 Olympics, embarking on a journey of both personal and political transformation. The film premiered at the International Documentary Film Awards{{cite web |url=https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/0bda2ab4-d49c-4861-beb7-e40f87509ffb/the-boxing-girls-of-kabul/ |title=The Boxing Girls of Kabul |publisher=IDFA Institute |access-date=2024-06-17}} in 2011, won a Canadian Screen Award and Inspirit Foundation Pluralism Prize. Brooks worked on the documentary as a contributing cinematographer and photographer.
• Kate Brooks was an Executive Producer on the documentary Tigre Gente (2021){{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14759612/ |title=Tigre Gente (2021) |publisher=IMDb| access-date=2024-06-17}} that premiered at Tribeca Film Festival{{cite web |url=https://tribecafilm.com/films/tigre-gente-2021 |title=Tribeca World Premieres: Tigre Gente |publisher=Tribeca |access-date=2024-06-17}} and broadcast on National Geographic{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/global/national-geographic-channel-elizabeth-unger-tigre-gente-1235441703/ |title=National Geographic Channel Acquires Latin American Rights to Elizabeth Unger's Genre Bending Wildlife Crime Documentary 'Tigre Gente' |author=Leo Barraclough |date=24 November 2022 |publisher=Variety| access-date=2024-06-17}} in Latin America.

• Photo District News 30 Under 30 2002{{cite web |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/brookskate/ |title=Kate Brooks |publisher=LinkedIn |access-date=2024-06-17}}
• TIME Pictures of the Year 2002{{cite web |url=https://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2029531_2207483,00.html |title=Best Photos of 2002: People |publisher=Time Magazine |access-date=2024-06-17}}
• TIME Picture of the Year 2005{{cite web |url=https://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1948183_2013839,00.html |title=Best Pictures of the Year 2005 |publisher=Time Magazine |access-date=2024-06-17}}
• Picture of the Year International 2007{{cite web |url=https://www.poy.org/64/21/ae01.php |title=Award of Excellence |publisher=Pictures of the Year International}}
• World Press Photo Masterclass 2007{{cite web |url=https://www.worldpressphoto.org/education/programs/joop-swart-masterclass/alumni |title=Joop Swart Masterclass alumni 1994-2024 |publisher=World Press Photo |access-date=2024-06-17}}
• International Photography Awards 2008{{cite web |url=https://photoawards.com/winner/zoomOLD.php?eid=58230&comp=8&mc=103013&type=subcat&sub=War/Conflict&cat=Editorial&level=pro\ |title=IPA Winners |publisher=International Photography Awards}}
• Disruptor Award 2017
• Impact Award Wildscreen 2018
• Picture of the Year International 2020{{cite web |url=https://www.poy.org/77/01/aoe05.html |title=Award of Excellence |publisher=Pictures of the Year International}}

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