BIO
Bryan Meltz is a documentary photographer based in Atlanta, Georgia. She specializes in long-term projects on social and humanitarian issues.
Bryan graduated with a Visual Journalism degree from The Brooks Institute of Photography and in 2005 was named Emerging Female Documentary Photographer of the Year by the Yarka Vendrinska Memorial Fund for her long-term project on HIV/AIDS. Her work has been commissioned by Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, Financial Times, The Fader, Vibe, Blender, XXL, Mass Appeal, Rodale, Wal-Mart and Emory University.
In 2004, Bryan worked on the PBS documentary “Rain in a Dry Land” that chronicled the lives of several Somali Bantu refugees from Africa to America. This led to her current long-term project on the refugee community in Clarkston, Georgia. This work has been exhibited throughout the Southeast and has been recognized by REVIEW Santa Fe, the International Photography Awards, American Photo Images of the Year, and a Documentary Award from the Center for Fine Art Photography.
In March 2010, Bryan traveled to Haiti to document the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Haiti, following the January 12 earthquake. In March, she spent several weeks covering the public health situation in the rural countryside of the Central Plateau and in May began collaborating with NGO’s GIANT Global and Humanity 4 Haitian Development on a 5-year project documenting the rebuilding of Grand Goave, near Port au Prince.
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