B I O G R A P H Y Michael Kamber was born in Sooke, Canada in 1963.  He has worked as a freelance photographer and journalist since the late 1980’s. Kamber has covered immigration, homelessness, labor issues and the environment.  He has made numerous trips to Mexico to document the mass migration of laborers to Canada and the United States.  He has also worked extensively in the Caribbean, covering politics, conflict and social issues in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.   In Pakistan and Afghanistan he has focused on the plight of long-term Afghan refugees and the future of a post-Taliban Afghanistan. Kamber spent 2003 working in West Africa and the Middle East, covering conflicts in the Ivory Coast, Congo, Liberia and Iraq.  His work has appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers in the Canada, Europe and the U.S. Kamber is a former Revson Fellow at Columbia University. He is the winner of the Mike Berger Award, the Missouri School of Journalism’s Lifestyle Award, and the Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Award.  He currently resides in Vancouver, Canada and is on assignment in Iraq for the International Herald Tribune.