Photojournalist Aryana Noroozi of The GroundTruth Project and Pulitzer Center
07/13/21 • 29 min
On this episode, Mark Simon is joined by Aryana Noroozi, a photojournalist working with The GroundTruth Project and Pulitzer Center on impactful community reporting.
Aryana talked about her career path, her photography style, and the different projects she worked on as a recent student at Columbia Journalism School. She also discussed one of her biggest projects, documenting remote learning and the impact it has on refugee families in San Diego, and an upcoming project related to losing a loved one to addiction during the time of COVID-19. She also shared her career aspirations and picked a journalism organization that she would like to salute.
If you like the podcast, please rate and review it. Thank you for listening.
Notable stories/photo projects
Refugee families and virtual learning
Friendship Park – a multinational park in San Diego
Iranians foreshadowing COVID issues
On this episode, Mark Simon is joined by Aryana Noroozi, a photojournalist working with The GroundTruth Project and Pulitzer Center on impactful community reporting.
Aryana talked about her career path, her photography style, and the different projects she worked on as a recent student at Columbia Journalism School. She also discussed one of her biggest projects, documenting remote learning and the impact it has on refugee families in San Diego, and an upcoming project related to losing a loved one to addiction during the time of COVID-19. She also shared her career aspirations and picked a journalism organization that she would like to salute.
If you like the podcast, please rate and review it. Thank you for listening.
Notable stories/photo projects
Refugee families and virtual learning
Friendship Park – a multinational park in San Diego
Iranians foreshadowing COVID issues
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