BIOGRAPHY
Marissa Roth is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, documentary and fine art photographer, born and raised in Los Angeles. She was part of The Los Angeles Times staff that won the Prize for Best Spot News, for coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Her assignments for other prestigious publications have taken her around the world, where she photographed stories encompassing social, political, and cultural subjects.To date, Roth’s global photographic project, One Person Crying: Women and War, spans four decades of her photography addressing how women have been directly impacted by war and conflict. An exhibition of this work debuted at The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles in 2012 and has been showcased internationally as a traveling exhibition. A book is forthcoming.Her published books include Infinite Light: A Photographic Meditation on Tibet, with a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Burning Heart: A Portrait of The Philippines; and The Crossing, a poetic photographic study of the Atlantic Ocean.Roth’s work has been widely exhibited and is held in both public and private collections. In addition, she is a curator, lecturer, and teacher.Roth is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London and the Royal Photographic Society in England and resides in London.