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Lorna Tychostup has over 15 years experience working regionally and internationally as a journalist, editor, writer, photographer, communications and outreach specialist (Iraq), and media relations/public relations consultant.
As an independent journalist, photographer, and senior editor of Chronogram magazine, Tychostup traveled to Iraq in February 2003, just weeks before the war began. Subsequent trips to report on the ongoing situation and working as consultant to Nature Iraq (Iraq's first and only environmental conservation group devoted to monitoring, protecting, and restoring Iraq's natural environmental and the rich cultural heritage that depends on it) led Tychostup to obtain a MS (with concentrations in International Relations and the Middle East) at NYU's Center for Global Affairs. Since receiving her degree (2009), Tychostup returned to Iraq working as a Communications and Outreach Specialist for USAID-funded and other development related projects.
Tychostup's journalism reputation is built on her reporting on the "other truths" - stories that were bypassed and/or ignored by mainstream media coverage. In Iraq, walking among the powerful and the destitute alike, beholden to no editorial authority or political agenda, afforded Tychostup an unparalleled opportunity to truly comprehend complex developments and earned her a unique and comprehensive perspective. Her haunting photographs and poignant stories have enabled audiences at more than 100 colleges and organizations to share the tragedy, struggle, and triumph of the various Iraqi communities. Her body of work is essential for anyone hoping to understand any aspect - domestic, political, or environmental - of what the world’s most conspicuous crisis.
Tychostup's photographs of Iraq and its people, before and during the war, were used in the branding, exhibit, and website of the American Friends Service Committee's Eyes Wide Open Exhibit on the Human Cost of War; and have been exhibited throughout the US. She has been interviewed extensively, on both radio and TV, including NPR, Fox’s “Hannity & Colmes” and NBC’s “Nightly News”; and her work has appeared in Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, YES!, Z Magazine, and Major League Baseball Magazine.
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