SVETLANA BACHEVANOVA

Publisher 

Svetlana Bachevanova is a publisher  and co-founder of FotoEvidence and documentary photographer with interest in human rights that began while living under a communist dictatorship in her native Bulgaria. In 1989, after the fall of the regime, Svetlana join the first anticommunist newspaper "Demokratia" where she led the photo department. Seven years later she became the head of the photo department in the Bulgarian News Agency. Svetlana covered the transition to democracy in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Lithuania, the war in Kosovo and Bosnia, the separation of the Soviet Union, the revolution in Romania. In 2001 Svetlana moved to New York where she founded FotoEvidence to continue her life work of using photography to fight oppression and expose human rights violations. She seeks to help photographers who work to document and fight against human rights violation so the story of her country and friends will never happen again.

DAVID STUART

Managing Editor

David Stuart is a co-founder of FotoEvidence. He is a sociologist with an interest in human rights that began as a teenager at the United Nations International School in New York. In a previous incarnation, he was a founder of the Freelance Players (now Rehearsal for Life) an educational theater organization in Boston. As the Executive Director of the Disarmament Action Network, he spent fiveyears working with a coalition of dozens of organizations to mobilizie opposition to US military and foreign. He spent eight years with the Boston College Media Research and Action Project, designing and analyzing research on the mass media and political discourse and consulting to social movement groups. During this time he helped intiate Untied for a Fair Economy, an organiztion focused on income inequality.  He has managed political campaigns and worked as a consultant to business, social movement and non-profit organizations. 

REGINA MONFORT

Photo Editor

Régina Monfort is a french-born photographer and editor living in New York City. Her work focusing on issues pertaining to youth, cultural identity and social stigmas has been widely exhibited in the United States and abroad. 

From 1997 to 2002, Monfort was the New York-based assistant to documentary film director Jean-Pierre Krief on the series Contacts.
She has taught at CUNY/La Guardia Community College, Pratt Institute and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Monfort brings her formal experience working with major photographic legacies to her editing projects.  She embraces working with long-form narratives, sequencing and articulating stories so they may serve as enduring testimonies. Since joining the FotoEvidence team in 2010 she has edited a number of books, including: Daniella Zalcman’s Signs of Your Identity, Marcus Bleasdale’s The Unravelling, Tanya Habjouqa’s Occupied Pleasures and Omo Change by Fausto Podavini.

Susann Tischendorf

Content Contributor

Susann Tischendorf is a German documentary photographer whose work focuses on human rights, women, identity, and the environment. A strong focus of her current work is life in rural communities in Asia and their importance for resilience building when facing increased migration due to natural hazards, economic instability, and climate change. She also works on the long-term project PRISMS, a collaborative storytelling series about the many layers of identity, migration, and belonging. This topic is very personal to her as she grew up witnessing the impactful transitions in society following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

She studied audiovisual communications at the University of Arts in Berlin and Sorbonne University in Paris, as well as international relations at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna and Washington, D.C. She was trained in documentary film at Arte TV in Strasbourg. During the past 7 years, she has worked for international organizations, including the World Bank and the United Nations, documenting and researching on topics of disaster risk management and resilience building in local communities through inclusiveness, focusing on projects in Asia and Africa. For her commitment in volunteering she was rewarded the Silver Honorary Needle of the Federation of Welfare Associations in Germany.

Her works have been exhibited by the International Photographic Society, the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University, Prachtwerk Berlin, and published by the United Nations and the World Bank Group. She is a member of the Berlin-based photo collective GWS. She was recently selected for the Director’s Grant in Documentary Photography Studies of the International Center for Photography in New York City.

Melike Taşcıoğlu 

NABEEL MUSHTAQ

Backend Engineer

Compiled built, and deployed in Islamabad, Nabeel has been field tested for over half a decade now with state of the art tools and technologies. His once lowly performance enjoyed rapid upgrades at National University, where he extended on his base OS to understand Software Engineering in particular and Computer Science in general. After beta testing in startup market, Nabeel found his way as technology consultant for over a year now where he plays active role in establishing enterprise applications. Now a days you would find him orchestrating development activities.