Rena Effendi

Born 1977 in Baku, Azerbaijan Rena Effendi has been active as a social documentary photographer since 2002.

She was a winner of the "Fifty Crows" International Fund for Documentary Photography competition in 2004. In 2005 she participated in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass and received honourable mention in National Geographic's "All Roads" photography competition. In 2006 Effendi was a winner of the Getty Images Editorial Photography Grant and the Giacomelli Memorial Fund award. The same year, Effendi's work was selected for personal exhibitions at the 18th "Visa Pour l'Image" Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan, France and at the "Les Imagiques" Festival of Photography in Bordeaux. Rena Effendi is a member of Agency Photographer.RU. Her work has been published in Le Monde, Liberation, Le Figaro, Newsweek, International Herald Tribune, Courrier International, and Ogoniok. In 2007 Photo District News magazine named Rena Effendi one of 30 emerging photographers. 

The Magnum Foundation was pleased to announce the ‘2009 Young Photographer in the Caucasus Award’. The Award was given in recognition of an outstanding documentary photography project on a matter of social importance by a young photographer (born after June 1975) living in the Caucasus region. The $5000 prize will be presented by a leading Magnum member at an award ceremony in Tbilisi, Georgia on 19th September 2009. The 2009 winner is Rena Effendi of Azerbaijan, born 1977. To look at her work>>>. For more work look at www.refendi.com