Maria Bryk
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BiographyMaria Bryk is a professional photographer in Washington, DC. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Art and Design and has traveled on fellowships to Southern Africa and Norway as well as lived in Paraguay with the United States Peace Corps. She worked as the in-house photographer for the Newseum in downtown DC for seven years before starting her business as a freelance photographer. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, USA Today, Huffington Post, Communication Arts, The New York Times, abc.com and bbc.co.uk, among other publications. She was featured in Art202 Journal’s “Thirty-two under 32” as a local young artist to watch, and she received a Communication Arts Magazine 2013 Award of Excellence for her "Golden Dreams" alphabet project. Her photojournalistic essays span a wide variety of subjects, including documenting migrant workers along the Atlantic coast, femininity in DC's queer culture, and Michigan's small-town tourism industry.
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