AWARDS

Courage in Journalism Award presented by International Women’s Media Foundation (2021) 

Green Family Foundation, Black Woman’s Shadow portrait series (2021)

The Block Award presented by Oolite Arts for a short documentary film, Moving the Poteau (2019)

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

PARTIAL PUBLICATION/ CLIENT LIST

Apple, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Gucci, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, The New Yorker, O Magazine, VICE, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Vogue UK, NPR, Atmos, Sierra Club Magazine, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, St. Louis Magazine, BET, Buzzfeed, IWMF, Maven Leadership Collective, Black Miami-Dade Archives, Florida International University, Totem, among many others.

EXHIBITIONS

  • Girls on the Brink: Holding on to Fragile Future, US State Department, Washington DC (2022)

  • Joy, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY (2022)

  • Down in the Delta, solo exhibit at the Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL (forthcoming)

  • Give Them Their Flowers,  Black Miami-Dade Archives, Miami, FL (forthcoming)

  • A Picture Gallery of the Soul, Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (2022)

  • Disrupting Anti-Blackness, Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL (2022)

  • Instruments of Memory, The Women’s Museum of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica (2022)

  • Being Seen, Culture Lab, New York City, NY (2022)

  • Inside Feelings, Outside Voices: Reflections from Miami, Green Space Miami, Miami, FL (2021)

  • Postcards from the End: A Dispatch of Hope, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL (2021)

  • Women Street Photographers, National Museum of Anthology, Villahermosa, Mexico (2021)

  • Rebel Vision, Photoville, New York City, NY (2021)

  • OUTWIN, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2021)

  • Black Summer: Race, Resistance and Resilience, Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL (2021) Curator

  • Resistance/Resilience, TRNK, New York City, NY (2021)

  • On Protest and Mourning, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Harlem, NY (2021)

  • Our Fight to Freedom, Chicago, IL (2021)

  • Introspective: A Reckoning of the Soul, The Art and Culture Center Hollywood, Hollywood, FL (2021)

  • PhotoSchweiz, Black Culture, Zurich, Switzerland (2020)

  • Black Gaze Matters, Antipode Gallery, Virtual (2020)

  • Expressions Diaspora Expo, Embassy of Haiti, Washington, DC (2019)

  • Where Land is Free, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL (2019)

FILMS

  • Heirs to Democracy, Emmerson Collective (forthcoming)

  • Final Notice, commissioned by Oolite Arts,  Director & Producer of a short documentary film (2021)

  • Good Friday in Ti Ayiti, commissioned by Oolite Arts, Photographer & Narrator of a short documentary film (2018)

PRESS, PUBLICATIONS, INTERVIEWS, FEATURES and PRINT

  • “The World in Black and White”, Country Magazine (2022)

  • “The Heart of a Disruptor”, Click and Company Magazine (2022)

  • “Black Women Photographers to watch in 2022”, PH Museum (2022)

  • “Black Photographers Showcase Images of Black Life”, HuffPost (2022)

  • Vanessa Charlot, Shout Out Miami (2022)

  • “Understanding the Technological Dimensions of Mob Censorship and It’s Impact on Journalists”, Washington State University (2022)

  • “Photojournalist Vanessa Charlot on Why Covering News Has Become More Dangerous”, The Wrap, (2021)

  • “Immigration Stories”, Emerson Collective (2021)

  • “Artist Profile”, VoyageMIA (2021)

  • “Shop Talk”, The New Territory Magazine, (2021)

  • “On his 25th birthday, Michael Brown’s mother reflects on his life and her ongoing fight for justice”, The Washington Post (2021)

  • “US Army Veteran Uses Photography to Reframe Black Experience”, Voices of America (2021)

  • “5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now”, New York Times (2021)

  • “American Seen”, Emerson Collective (2021)

  • “STL Made”, St. Louis Magazine (2021)

  • “The Photographers Behind The Movement”, Rolling Stone (2021)

  • “10 black photojournalists on documenting the US’s Black Lives Matter protests”, Vogue (2020)

  • “Our Favorite Photos from 2020”, The Guardian (2020)

  • “Vanessa Charlot”, FotoFemme United (2020)

  • “5 Photographers On Documenting Protests Through Their Own Lens”, Atmos (2020)

  • “What Does It Mean to Defund the Police?” in Sierra Club Magazine (2020)

  • “I Can’t Breathe” in Woke Magazine (2020)

  • “Vanessa Charlot Photo Essay” in St. Louis Magazine (2020)

  • “7 Photographers on What It’s Like to Be on the Ground Capturing the BLM Protests Across the US” in ArtNet News (2020)     

  • “Social Distancing during Protest” in Vice News (2020)

  • “Content for Change”, BET (2020)

  • “A Unity Forged by Fire”, Atmos (2020)

  • “The Story of Isadore Banks”, Unfinished: Deep South (2020)

  • “St. Louis Protests”, The Atlantic (2020)

  • “Making a Planet Worth Saving”, The New Yorker (2020)

  • “George Floyd Photos from Around the World”, New York Magazine (2020)

  • “Most Powerful Photos of the Week”, Buzzfeed (2020)

  • “Where are your going”, Oprah Magazine (2020)

  • “Black Photographers Discuss the Challenges and Necessity of Documenting Protest”, Observer (2020)

  • “Lezley McSpadden”, New York Magazine (2020)

  • “Youth Organizers”, Rolling Stone (2020)

  • “Black Worship”, The Amistad at Howard University (2019)

  • “How We Honor Our People”, The Librvry by The Blvck Archives (2019)

  • “Photographer Feature”, Streetlight Magazine (2019)

  • “Spirit Workers”, OutVoice, OutFront (2019)

  • “Sages of Cuba and Haiti”, Genre: Urban Arts, No. 8 Print (2019)

LECTURES, PANELS & ARTIST TALKS

  • On Political Photography: Documenting Racial Inequality in the US, New York University, New York, NY (2022)

  • ACOS Alliance: Safety for Freelance Journalist, Ford Foundation, New York, NY (2022)

  • Safety for Journalists in Conflict, Reuters, New York, NY (2022)

  • Safety in Journalism, International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy (2022)

  • Artist Talk, Click Away Conference, Chicago, IL (2022)

  • Women in Photography, Exile Books, Miami, FL (2022)

  • Open Dialogues: Black Voices | Black Stories, Art and Culture Center Hollywood, Hollywood, FL (2022)

  • Artist Talk, Catalyst Miami, Miami, FL (2022)

  • Protect Yourself, Center for Independent Journalism (2022)

  • Artist Talk, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL (2022)

  • Artist Talk, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab at Florida International University , Miami, FL (2022)

  • Women, Photography, and Feminisms, Women Photographers International Archive Congress, Miami, FL (2021)

  • Evolving Safety Risk for Women Journalist, MacArthur Foundation (2021)

  • Art World Mothers, SCOPE Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL(2021)

  • Artist Talk, Power Women Summit, Los Angeles, CA (2021)

  • Artists Talk, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (2021)

  • VII Academy/ Foundry Photojournalism Workshop (2021)

  • The Photographic Journey, The Curious Society, Billings, MT (2021)

  • Press Freedom: When Journalists of Color Become the Target While Covering Unrest, National Association of Hispanic Journalists (2021)

  • Identity Based Safety While Covering Civil Unrest, The Association of LGBTQ Journalists and WomenPhotograph (2021)

  • Unmasking Modern Masculinity, Leica Camera USA & Photoville, New York, NY (2021)

  • Life Captured Life Reflected, Green Space Miami, Miami, FL (2021)

  • Documenting Black Life in America, Howard University (2021)

  • The Changing Landscape of Journalism, Ohio State University (2021)

  • In God We Trust, Saint Louis University (2021)

  • Covering Civil Unrest, International Women’s Media Foundation (2021)

  • Artist Talk, Candid Frame (2021)

  • Virtual Local Views, Perez Art Museum Miami (2020)

  • Intersectionality of Photography, St. Louis Design Week (2020)

  • Photography and Protests, Creative Mornings Louisville (2020)

  • Beyond the Ballot: St. Louis and Suffrage, Missouri History Museum (2020)

  • Navigating the New Safety Landscape, ACOS Alliance (2020)

  • Art as Activism: Education, Self-Expression and Spiritual Liberation in Haitian Vodou, Duke University, Durham, NC (2019)

  • Reimagining Black Divinity: Healing the Collective Conscious through Photography, Mosque 29, Miami, FL (2019)

  • Street Photographers of Southeast Asia, Phnom Phen, Cambodia (2018)

  • Black Bodies in the White Gaze, MUCE Campus, Miami, FL (2018)

  • Documenting Rural Haiti, State University of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, HT (2017)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES & BOOKS

  • David, G. (2022) Trailblazers: Black Women Who Helped Make America Great: American First | American Icons Volume 1. University of Chicago Press.

  • Oransky, Howard. (2022). A Picture of the Soul. University of California Press.

  • Delgado, A. (2021). Becoming Sisters: Women Photography Collectives and Organizations. Women Photographers International Archives.

  • Racine, M. (forthcoming) Women in Haitian Vodou Anthology.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Emerson Collective Fellow (2022 to present)

  • HEFAT Instructor, (2021 to present)

  • Faculty, International Center of Photography (2020 to present)

  • Visiting Professor, Institute of Social Work & Social Science, Haiti (2015-2016)

  • United States Army Aviation Corps (2009-2012)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Apple

  • Firelight Media

  • Diversify Photos

  • The Curious Society

  • Iris Photo Collective

  • Women Photograph

  • Authority Collective

  • Emerson Collective

  • ROAAAR (safety collective)

  • Contributor, ShutterStock

  • Contributor, Redux Images

  • Black Women Photographers

  • International Women’s Media Foundation

  • Greater St. Louis Association of Black Journalists

  • Missouri History Museum Latinx Community Engagement Advisory Committee

EDUCATION

  • M.Ed., Education Administration, Concordia University (2016)

  • B.A., English Literature- Sociology minor, Florida Atlantic University (2007)

LANGUAGES | Haitian-Creole, French, Spanish