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Jodi Hilton (Photographer)

Jodi Danielle Hilton (b. 1970, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American Photographer.

Hilton was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. She holds degrees from University of Missouri School of Journalism (Master's in Journalism) and Colorado College (Bachelor's in Art). She is a second generation American citizen. Her grandparents immigrated to the United States from Germany, Russia and Hungary.

She is a freelance photojournalist specialized in human rights, immigration, marginalized and minority groups.

In 2016 she was the co-recipient of a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Alongside journalist Jeanne Carstensen, she reported on the refugees crisis in Greece, from the moment that European borders were officially closed to asylum seekers and more than 70,000 newly arrived immigrants trapped in Greece.

She went on to work for United Nations Development Programme's Istanbul office as a contract photographer producing photo-reports for the Regional Human Development Report in five countries: Macedonia, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Armenia.

Her photographs have appeared in numerous American and European publications, notably National Geographic Italy, Der Spiegel, New York Times and Washington Post.

She was nominated for the award of Humanitarian Photographer of the Year by AidEx in Brussels in 2016.

Hilton also works as a reporter. Many of her articles and photographs have been published by IRIN News.