Carla Cioffi
Women Photojournalists of Washington
Washington, DC, USA
Carla Cioffi is a documentary/reportage, editorial, and art photographer. She was born in Caracas, Venezuela to a Sicilian father and an American mother. She has lived and worked in a number of international locales.
As a photographer at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, she covered human spaceflight and space policy issues in such diverse places as Russia, Kazakhstan and the US. She holds the distinction of being the first American woman to photograph astronauts launching to the ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and remains the only American woman to photograph the return to earth from the open door of a Russian military helicopter. Following NASA, she lived and worked in Qatar as a freelance photographer.
Carla's reportage and editorial work have been distributed worldwide through news and photo agencies such as Der Spiegel, the Financial Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, National Geographic online, Reuters, Getty Images. Her photographs on the Resist movement in the United States have been shared on social media by LensCulture and Photograph Magazine. In addition, her work on the rapid pace of construction in Qatar was featured both in Italian architecture and design magazine, FloorNature, and French photography journal L'Oeil de la Photographie.
Her photographs have been exhibited in a number of galleries throughout the United States and in Europe.
She holds a B.A. in Russian Studies and an M.F.A. in Communications/Photography. Currently based in the Washington, DC area, she is available for a variety of assignments both domestically and internationally.
Partial Client List -
BLJ Worldwide / Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar / Der Spiegel / Financial Times / Hamad Medical Corporation (Qatar) / HAVAS Group / Nancy Cost Design / NASA / Northwestern University in Qatar / Qatar Financial Authority Centre / Qatar Foundation / RasGas Company Limited (Qatar) / Shutters on the Beach / Xi'an Jiatong-Liverpool University (China)
2019 - Portrait of America, 2018 - The Photography Gala Awards - Women Seen By Women, 2018 - PX3 Prix de la Photographie, 2006 - International Photography Awards, 2002 - National Graduate Seminar Fellow, 2002 - American Photography 18
- Architecture
- Arts
- Breaking news
- Editorial
- Environment
- Events
- Food
- Interior
- Landscape
- Portrait
Congresswoman Cori Bush for Financial Times
Carla Cioffi
Democratic Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01) is seen in her office in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC on Wednesday, October 27, 2021. The progressive lawmaker spoke with the Financial Times on urging the White House to fight for a larger spending bill for the Build Back Better plan, amongst other issues. © Carla Cioffi - outtake
Congresswoman Cori Bush for Financial Times
Carla Cioffi
Democratic Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01) is seen in her office in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC on Wednesday, October 27, 2021. The progressive lawmaker spoke with the Financial Times on urging the White House to fight for a larger spending bill for the Build Back Better plan, amongst other issues. © Carla Cioffi
Portrait of Anaise Kanimba for Der Spiegel
Carla Cioffi
Anaise Kanimba, adopted daughter of Paul Rusesabagina of Hotel Rwanda fame, is seen in Washington, DC on February 8, 2021. Ms. Kanimba has been advocating for the release of her father who was renditioned and imprisoned illegally by the Rwandan government. © Carla Cioffi
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/paul-rusesabagina-did-the-hotel-rwanda-hero-become-a-terrorist-a-4c3c76cd-acd7-4fa4-ae86-f44d8f8afc10
