Justyna Mielnikiewicz

Freelance photojournalist from Poland. Based in the Republic of Georgia, mainly covers the countries of the former Soviet Union. Regularly cooperates with The New York Times, Newsweek Poland and Eurasianet.org. Additionally, works have been published in various news publications: Monocle, Russian Reporter, Ogoniok, NG Travel, Le Monde among others.

Started her work as a photojournalist in 1999 as a reporter for Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. In 2002, became freelance and moved to Georgia, where started to work on her long-term project about the South Caucasus.

The project was awarded second prize in the Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts Project and got an honourable mention from the Dorotea Lange/ Robert Taylor Prize in 2003. The Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts bought her works for their museum collection. Recent publication of her work came in the German yearbook of Reporters without Borders.In 2009 received Second Prize in World Press Photo Competition -for Coverage of War in South Ossetia.