"DIMMOCK"

Jessica Dimmock (New York, USA, 1978). Graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York, she has received numerous awards, including the Infinity Award for Photojournalism awarded by the ICP (2014), the Inge Morath Award from Magnum Foundation (2008), a Special Mention included Santa Fe Center of Photography (2007) and a research grant Marty Forscher the Photo District News (2007). In 2007 she published her first book, The Ninth Floor, a photographic project that led her to live for three years with heroin addicts who occupied a luxury building on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. Her work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou (Paris), in the FOAM (Amsterdam), the International Photography Center (Milan), at the Kunsthaus Dresden and at the United Nations (New York). In 2011 she was named full member of VII Photo Agency. Her work has been published in numerous media, including: Aperture, W, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Sunday Times, The British Journal of Photography, Time, Grazia and Photoicon, as well as works a New American Photographic Dream, C International and American Photography 22. Dimmock has also worked video, still won the Kodak Award for Best Cinematography at the Hamptons International Film Festival (2011) and the Independent Spirit Award (2011). Her video for UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) on child marriage earned him first prize in the World Press Photo. Also, Dimmock has recorded documentaries for HBO and The Weight of the National and Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously, and has worked as co-director of production Brick.