Mimi Chakarova
Mimi Chakarova is a Bulgarian-American photographer and filmmaker. Her best known work is likely the 2011 The Price of Sex documentary about sex trafficking. Her other film work included The Hour and Frontline/World. Most recent is Men: A Love Story.
She is the recipient of the Dorothea Lange Fellowship for outstanding work in documentary photography. Chakarova's work has been recognized by being awarded the Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking, the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting, the Magnum Photos Inge Morath Award, and a People's Voice Webby as well as a nomination for a News & Documentary Emmy Award.
She also teaches photography at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and at Stanford University’s African and African American Studies and Comparative Studies for Race and Ethnicity.
