Nastassia Kantorowicz Torres

Nastassia Kantorowicz Torres (she/her) is a photojournalist and non-fiction storyteller. She is a contributor for Sipa Press (France) and freelancer.  Nastassia covers war, migration, water, post-conflict solutions and gender-based perspectives. Her work was exhibited in Camera meets ICP, A living Archive group show, and published in Le Parisien, El Pais America and others. She was an International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) 2025 Women on the Ground: Reporting from Ukraine’s Unseen Frontlines, IWMF’s 2019 Adelante Fellow (Colombia/ Venezuela Border) and a National Geographic COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists 2020 recipient. She received the 2018 Documentary Essay Prize of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She is a member of Women Photograph. She completed a postgraduate certificate in Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism from the International Center of Photography in 2017. Nastassia worked in development projects in Colombia and in humanitarian aid with Doctors without Borders in Eastern African countries. She holds a master’s degree in Public Affairs from the Institute des Sciences-Politiques Paris. She is from Colombia with dual citizenship from the United States. Nastassia lives in Kyiv, Ukraine since fall 2024.