monique stauder photography
Monique Stauder is a Swiss-American documentary historian and artist with a resume that spans the globe.
Her photojournalistic work has appeared in TIME, Newsweek, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, National Geographic, GEO and Mother Jones among others.
Initiated by her desire to humanise political science, her dedication to investigative reporting and documenting the complexities of ethnic nationalism took her from the camps of Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka to the island nation of East Timor and from the Balkans to the Nuba Mountains in Sudan on behalf of international humanitarian Non Governmental Organisations and international editorial publications.
Subsequently she continued covering political, cultural and social stories in other parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Since her 3 year epic journey around the equator, she has shifted to long-term projects that create 'living maps' of the world while adding sound/video/visual art to her repertoire.
She is tri-lingual (english, french, spanish) and holds a double Masters Degree in International Relations and History from the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva, Switzerland (associated with Fletcher School at TUFTS University, Boston) and was a 1990 graduate in History from the University of Colorado.
Her latest odyssey which began and ended in the Atlantic Ocean is an ode to life around the equator. While circumnavigating the globe solo within 1 degree north & south of 00.00 degrees, she documented the fragile ebb, flow and interconnectedness of humanity and nature through Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Nauru, Indonesia, Maldives, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Gabon and Sao Tome.
Her upcoming book, LATITUDE ZERO, hallmarking her raw and poetic style while fusing photojournalism with fine art, will be published by Schilt Publishing
in May 2010 and distributed worldwide via Thames & Hudson except North America which will be distributed via INGRAM Publisher Services in Canada & USA from July 2010 onwards.
TIME.com profiled this epic journey with a forward by Paul Theroux in January 2004
http://www.time.com/time/2004/equator/
The site won 2nd place @ NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2005
http://www.nppa.org/competitions/best_of_still_photojournalism/2005/web/winners/fps-over.html
Telluride Mountain Film Festival also profiled the journey as a slideshow/exhibit in 2004 and the Royal Geographic Society in Hong Kong and Explorer’s Club in New York City presented it as a lecture/slideshow in 2005 & 2006.
Selected images from LATITUDE ZERO won PDN's 2010 photo annual competition in the photojournalism category. They will be displayed in PDN's May 2010 magazine issue.