Bio

Nichole Sobecki a freelance photographer and writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. She covers news, culture, conflict and economics in the greater Middle East and Africa.

From 2008-2011 Nichole was the Turkey Correspondent for Global Post, based in Istanbul, Turkey.

Nichole graduated in 2008 from Tufts University with a B.A. in Political Science. She has studied photography at the International Center of Photography and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

In 2007 Nichole worked as a correspondent for the Daily Star, Lebanon’s English language newspaper based in Beirut. She has participated in Exposure/VII journalism workshops through the Institute for Global Leadership in Kosovo and Cambodia. In 2005 she interned with photojournalist James Nachtwey.

Nichole shot and edited "The Luckiest Man: Gun Violence in Urban America," a documentary, and "Shooting for Peace," an initiative of the Jacob Burns Film Center which explores several grassroots initiatives to reach people affected by AIDS, unsanitary water conditions, and civil war in Uganda.

Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Guardian, Le Monde M Magazine and GlobalPost.

NGO clients include Action Against Hunger and International Planned Parenthood Federation.

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