{{short description|South African photographer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Jodi Bieber | honorific_suffix = | image = Jodi Bieber.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Jodi Bieber in 2014 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1966<ref name=phillips/> | birth_place = Johannesburg, South Africa<ref name=phillips/> | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | nationality = | education = | alma_mater = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = | awards = 2010 World Press Photo of the Year<ref name=wpp/> | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = {{url|http://www.jodibieber.com/}} | module = }}
'''Jodi Bieber''' (born 1966)<ref name=phillips>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/nov/20/photography-jodi-bieber-best-shot|title=Photographer Jodi Bieber's best shot|date=20 November 2011|accessdate=22 June 2012|work=The Guardian|first=Sarah|last=Phillips}}</ref> is a South African photographer. Her photograph of Bibi Aisha, a woman from Afghanistan whose ears and nose were severed by her husband and brother-in-law, was selected as the World Press Photo of the Year in 2010.<ref name=wpp>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2011/30248/1/2011JodiBieberYEAR|title=2011 Photo Contest, World Press Photo of the Year|accessdate=19 May 2020|publisher=World Press Photo of the Year}}</ref>
==Early life and work== Bieber was born in 1966 in Johannesburg.<ref name=phillips/> In the early 1990s she attended the Market Photo Workshop and covered the 1994 South African general election, South Africa's first democratic elections, for ''The Star''.<ref name=ragusa/> She trained under Ken Oosterbroek in 1993 and worked in South Africa until 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/is-this-the-best-news-picture-in-the-world/|title=Is This the Best News Picture in the World?|date=11 February 2011|accessdate=19 April 2015|first=David W.|last=Dunlap}}</ref> In 2000 she covered an ebola outbreak in Uganda for ''The New York Times Magazine''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://time.com/3810984/picturing-ebola-photographers-chase-an-invisible-killer/|title=Picturing Ebola: Photographers Chase an Invisible Killer|date=29 July 2014|access-date=19 April 2015|work=Time|first=Olivier|last=Laurent}}</ref>
==Approach to photography== Bieber has said that her work is not photojournalism: "I do not aspire to objectivity. I'm simply a photographer. I show what I see and what strikes me, always from my point of view."<ref name=ragusa>{{cite web|url=https://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/south-africa-jodi-bieber-between-darkness-and-light|title=The South Africa of Jodi Bieber. Between Darkness and Light|date=29 December 2017|accessdate=19 May 2020|work=Doppiozero|first=Stefania|last=Ragusa}}</ref>
==Bibi Aisha== Bibi Aisha, then 18, was disfigured after being convicted by the Taliban of taking refuge from a violent husband in her family home. Her story was part of a 2010 ''Time'' report into the conditions of Afghan women (see Women's rights in Afghanistan), in conjunction with which Bieber's photo was featured on the magazine's front cover. David Burnett, the chair of the World Press Photo (WPP) jury, said of Bieber's photo of Aisha, "This could become one of those pictures – and we have maybe just ten in our lifetime – where if somebody says, 'You know, that picture of a girl … ', you know exactly which one they're talking about." The Photo of the Year award was Bieber's tenth WPP prize.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/35454-world-press-photo-2011-in-edinburgh-jodi-bieber-interview/|title=World Press Photo 2011 in Edinburgh – Jodi Bieber interview|date=8 July 2011|accessdate=19 April 2015|work=The List}}</ref>
Speaking about the photograph, Bieber said "I could have made a photograph with her looking or being portrayed more as the victim. And I thought 'no, this woman is beautiful.'"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://content.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,294175100001_2007267,00.html|title=Photographing Aisha for the Cover of TIME|access-date=19 April 2015|work=Time}}</ref> In a 2014 essay Hilary Janks discussed Bieber's concern for Aisha's beauty and questioned whether "the mutilation [would] have been less reprehensible if Aisha had not been young and beautiful".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2f02AgAAQBAJ|page=36|title=Moving Critical Literacies Forward: A New Look at Praxis Across Contexts|editor-first1=Jessica Zacher|editor-last1=Pandya|editor-first2=JuliAnna|editor-last2=Ávila|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|year=2014|first=Hilary|last=Janks|chapter=The Importance of Critical Literacy}}</ref>
==Other work== Bieber's book ''Soweto'' depicting contemporary scenes from the township of Soweto in Johannesburg, was published in 2010.<ref name=bjp>{{cite web|url=http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/q-and-a/1651155/jodi-bieber-soweto|title=Jodi Bieber's Soweto|date=30 May 2010|accessdate=19 April 2015|work=British Journal of Photography|first=Olivier|last=Laurent|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531050316/http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/q-and-a/1651155/jodi-bieber-soweto|archivedate=31 May 2013}}</ref><ref name=ny>{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/postcard-from-soweto-jodi-bieber|title=Postcard from Soweto: Jodi Bieber|date=1 July 2010|accessdate=19 May 2020|work=The New Yorker|first=Whitney|last=Johnson}}</ref> Bieber described the book as an attempt to counter stereotypes about Soweto and to rectify the absence of representations of post-Apartheid Soweto.<ref name=bjp/><ref name=ny/>
During the lockdown imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, Bieber published on Instagram a series of photographs of her husband Francois in various costumes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/04/evidence-of-work-jodi-bieber-lockdown-portraits/|title=Evidence of Work: Jodi Bieber’s playful images of her husband in lockdown|date=16 April 2020|accessdate=19 May 2020|work=British Journal of Photography|first=Simon|last=Bainbridge}}</ref>
==Publications== *''Between Dogs and Wolves: Growing up with South Africa''. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 1996. {{ISBN|978-1904587323}}. *''Soweto''. Jacana, 2010. {{ISBN|978-1770098060}}. With an introduction by Niq Mhlongo.<ref name="bjp"/> *''Real Beauty''. 2014. Pagina, Goch/Germany, 2014. {{ISBN|978-3-944146-11-9}}.
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==External links== * [http://www.jodibieber.com/ Official website] * {{cite web|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2007407,00.html|title=Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban|date=9 August 2010|work=Time|first=Aryn|last=Baker|postscript=none}} – the cover story which Bieber's photograph of Aisha accompanied * {{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/world/asia/05afghan.html|title=Portrait of Pain Ignites Debate Over Afghan War|date=4 August 2010|work=The New York Times|first=Rod|last=Nordland|postscript=none}} – article concerning the international response to the ''Time'' cover
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