Donna Ferrato is famous for achieving the seemingly impossible, establishing her career by visually capturing the horrors of family violence. Donna’s unique ability to get behind closed doors has allowed her to capture the most complex moments in human interactions and relationships. Her commitment to society’s darkest problems from domestic violence to child sexual assault have become landmark essays in the field of documentary photography. Her photographs have changed laws and consistently challenged ignorant attitudes promoted by society about violence against women and children. Her iconic book, Living with the Enemy, (Aperture 1991) has been reprinted three times and sold a record number of 40,000 copies worldwide.

Through exhibitions of her pictures and lectures worldwide Donna is recognized as one of the pre-eminent forces in the fight against the oppression of women. She has become one of America’s most recognized photojournalists, working worldwide on personality projects as diverse as Bruce Springsteen, Guns AND Roses, and human sexuality.

Her current work presents a unique look at New York’s downtown neighborhood Tribeca, in a lush and contemporary way that is uniquely hers. Donna Ferrato’s Tribeca Document is a collection of rare images of TriBeCa – Triangle below Canal. With an intimate, insider’s artist’s sensibility, this treasury captures one of New York city’s most historical and, in modern times, most exclusive neighborhoods, as it stands on the very cusp of development.

Donna has received numerous awards, including

• W. Eugene Smith Grant (1986)
• Robert F. Kennedy Award for Humanistic Photography (1987)
• Kodak Crystal Eagle for Courage in Journalism (1997)
• International Women in Media Courage in Journalism Award (1996)
• Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism from the School of Journalism at University of Missouri-Columbia (2003)
• Artist of the Year Tribeca Film Festival (2008)
• WebMD Grant for a domestic violence website (2007)
• NYC proclamation announcing Donna Ferrato Appreciation Day (10/30/08) “for her service as an example of advocacy and activism and for being a citizen that the city is proud to call one of it’s own”.
• October 2009, the New York State Supreme Court Judges honored Donna for her influential encouragement of gender fairness through her talent as both an artist and activist photographer.