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Samar Abu Elouf, Nanna Heitmann and Ziv Koren
About Samar Abu Elouf
Samar Abu Elouf was born and raised in the Gaza Strip. A self-taught photojournalist, she has worked in Gaza since 2010, documenting daily life, news and the profound effects of conflict on her country.
Previously, Samar covered the 2018–2019 Gaza border protests, the so-called Great March of Return, as well as the fighting between Israel and Hamas in May 2021, which destroyed essential infrastructure and killed more than 230 people, including several of her own relatives.
In 2023 she chronicled one of the deadliest military campaigns in modern history for The New York Times: Israel’s strikes on and subsequent invasion of Gaza in the aftermath of the October 7th Hamas attacks. Like many Palestinian journalists working in Gaza, Samar was simultaneously enduring a war while also documenting it. She won numerous awards for her powerful images.
She previously worked with Reuters, NZZ Swiss Magazine, Middle East Eye and others.
About Nanna Heitmann
Nanna Heitmann is a German documentary photographer and a full member of Magnum Photos. She is one of the few Western photographers covering Russia as it wages Europe’s biggest war of conquest since World War II, documenting both its devastation and the stark dissonance between the war’s horrors and Moscow’s glorified, distorted narratives.
Her earlier work explores themes of human resilience and environmental crises, including the impact of climate change in Siberia (As Frozen Lands Burn) and the Congo Basin’s peatlands (Beneath The Trees). Heitmann is a regular contributor to The New York Times and has been published in National Geographic, The New Yorker, Time and M Le Magazine du Monde. Her visual journalism has earned numerous accolades, including the Olivier Rebbot Award for her coverage of Russia’s Covid crisis and a World Press Photo Award for her series on wildfires.
She joined Magnum as a nominee in 2019 with Weg vom Fenster, a project on Germany’s last coal miners, and Hiding From Baba Yaga, a journey along Siberia’s Yenisei River capturing lives in remote villages. In 2024, she was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
About Ziv Koren
Ziv Koren has been a professional photojournalist for over 30 years. Today, Koren works for the daily "Yedioth Ahronoth", represents "Polaris Images" photo agency in Israel, serves as an ambassador for "Can-son" fine art paper, for "Think-Tank Photo", as an advisor for "Canon Israel" and is working on personal projects worldwide. Koren's photojournalism and documentary projects focus mainly on humanitarian issues in Israel and around the world such as natural disasters, conflicts, wars and pandemics.
In the last three decades Koren has covered some of the most dramatic events in the world and is considered to be one of the leading documentary photographers of our time. In addition, he has documented the Israeli Defence Forces and Elite Counter-Terror units. On October 7, 2023, Koren was one of the first photographers to set out to the south of Israel to document the brutal attack of Hamas, the daily horrors and the war that followed. This documentary work has been exhibited in dozens of cities worldwide and was edited into a book of 304 pages, contributing to Israeli public diplomacy.
His award-winning photographs have contributed to 160 solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo, the Memorial Museum in Spain, MAXXI - The National Museum of Art in Rome, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, at Cui Zhenkuan - Art Museum in Xi'an, China, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and at The War Museum in Croatia, alongside leading Israeli Museums and among dozens of galleries around the world.
About the ICP Infinity Awards
Since 1985, the annual ICP Infinity Awards have recognized major contributions and emerging talent in the fields of photojournalism, art, fashion photography, and publishing. Support the ICP Infinity Awards at icp.org/donate. All proceeds directly benefit ICP’s education and exhibition programs.