Andre Malerba
Bangkok, Thailand
Andre is a photojournalist based in Bangkok, Thailand. He has worked all over Southeast Asia and further afield, from Sri Lanka to Mongolia. From 2013-2016 he covered Myanmar exclusively, as the country struggled through the early days of democracy, and was awarded Magnum Photos 30 Under 30 for his work there. Andre is available for assignments internationally, and has covered a wide variety of situations from general news to intimate year-long projects.
Andre's work has been published internationally in print and online at The Washington Post, Stern, BBC, Al Jazeera America, Terra Mater, Foreign Policy Magazine, Pacific Standard, Pro Photographer Magazine, among others. He has collaborated with various NGOs including the Novartis Foundation, Save The Children International, Natural Resource Governance Institute, Médecins Sans Frontières and WORTH, producing both still images and multimedia projects. Andre has also produced video for clients including Google, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Al Jazeera+, and China Daily Asia.
Andre has co-led photography workshops in Myanmar, in conjunction with the Caravan's Journal, and has spoken at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
2017 - Days Japan Photojournalism Award Finalist, 2016 - Documentary Photography Fund Emerging Vision Award, 2016 - UNICEF Photo of the Year Nomination, 2015 - Joop Swart Masterclass: Nomination, 2015 - Magnum Photo's 30 Under 30, 2014 - Foundry Photojournalism Workshop Full Scholarship
- Advertising
- Audio capture
- Breaking news
- Corporate
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Environment
- Portrait
- Reporting
- Video capture
Rohingya Exodus
Andre Malerba
Abu Jafar (foreground), 60, prays next to a long line of Rohingya refugees, as they wait to be let into the Bangladeshi camps after crossing the Naf River from Myanmar. Abu Jafar made the same crossing in 1992, and said that the border guards had mistaken him for a new arrival and forced him to pray in the rice field instead of in the mosque across the road.
Healthy Living in Mongolia
Andre Malerba
A woman leads a small yoga class in her apartment in Ulaanbaatar. Obesity and hypertension are on the rise in the capital city of Mongolia due to a traditional diet of meat and fried food mixed with the sedentary, modern lifestyle and traffic that is quickly becoming the norm in a city that really only saw such things come to life around ten years ago.
Buddhist Nuns
Andre Malerba
Ma Yu Mar Lar helps her friend and fellow, novice, Buddhist nun to shave her head. This is something they do about once a month. Buddhist nuns don't receive any of the same privileges or authority that monks do, even though they also devote their lives to Buddhism.