Rena Effendi

Rena Effendi, born in 1977 in Baku, Azerbaijan, has been active as a photographer since 2001 and from the outset, her interest has been social documentary photography. Her work focuses on themes of urbanization, post-conflict societies, corruption, and the oil industry's effects on people's lives. Effendi was a regional winner of the Fifty Crows International Fund for Documentary Photography competition and was awarded Azerbaijan's Photographic Artist of the Year. In 2005, she was selected to participate in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass and received honorable mention in National Geographic's All Roads photography competition.