Tiana Markova-Gold is a freelance documentary photographer based in Brooklyn, NY.  She received a New York Times Scholarship to attend the full-time Photojournalism Program at ICP in 2006-07.  She has traveled extensively, documenting social issues with a particular focus on women and girls. Her photographs have been recognized in numerous photography contests including Pictures of the Year International, NY Photo Awards, PDN Photo Annual and American Photography.  Markova-Gold’s work has been included in exhibitions at Sasha Wolf Gallery, Exit Art, NY Photo Festival, HOST Gallery in London, England, Lumix Festival of Young Photojournalism in Hannover, Germany and the LagosPhoto Festival in Lagos, Nigeria. In 2009 she traveled throughout Asia on a photography fellowship from the Johnson & Johnson Foundation, photographing social services projects in nine countries across the region.  In the same year she traveled to Nigeria and Brazil as the recipient of a fellowship from Global Fund for Children (Grassroots Girls Initiative) and the Nike Foundation (Girl Effect), documenting the work of several local organizations whose aim is to empower, protect and educate adolescent girls and young women. She is a 2010 NYFA recipient in Photography and 2010 recipient, with writer Sarah Dohrmann, of the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She is also a 2012 CCNY Darkroom Residency recipient.