Daniella Zalcman (born 1986) is an award winning documentary photographer based out of London and New York City. [1]

Daniella Zalcman is Vietnamese American. Daniella Zalcman was born in Washington, D.C. and attended Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2009, Zalcman graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture. While studying at Columbia, Zalcman was involved in the Columbia Daily Spectator, The Eye, and the Vietnamese Students Association.

Daniella Zalcman has been an independent documentary photographer since 2007. She is a multiple grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation, and the founder of Women Photograph, an initiative working to elevate the voices of female and non-binary visual journalists. [7]

Zalcman's work tends to focus on the legacies of western colonization, from the rise of homophobia in East Africa to the forced assimilation education of indigenous children in North America. Her ongoing project, Signs of Your Identity, is the recipient of the 2017 Arnold Newman Prize, a 2017 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the 2016 FotoEvidence Book Award, the 2016 Magnum Foundation's Inge Morath Award, and part of Open Society Foundation's Moving Walls 24. She regularly lectures at high schools and universities, and is interested in assignments and speaking engagements internationally.

Zalcman's work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, and Vanity Fair, among others. Her photographs have been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe and are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.