BIO: Barbara Grover’s travels to over 40 countries, many facing conflict and poverty, led her to leave her career as a political consultant and take on the creation of photographic works to affect social and political change. Based in her native Los Angeles, Barbara Grover began her journey as a documentary freelance photographer and writer in 1996 after receiving the Golden Light Award for Photojournalism. Working largely for non- profit organizations – such as the Los Angeles Free Clinic, Whole Child International and the Hide & Seek Foundation – Grover’s work has appeared in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, Stern, Scholastic, the LA Weekly, and the Italian magazines Gulliver and Happy Web. Grover’s work distills some of the most complex issues of our time into compelling human stories. Over the past few years, she has developed and produced several long-term projects that have begun both independently and been commissioned. She has traversed the U.S. documenting the world of children and families affected by devastating Lysosomal Disease. She has traveled from the Gaza Strip to the Lebanese border to create a different picture of the Middle East Conflict through a traveling exhibit called “THIS LAND TO ME – SOME CALL IT PALESTINE, OTHERS ISRAEL.”  Most recently she spent seven weeks documenting life in a Darfuri refugee camp, resulting in the multi-media mini-documentary, “THE WOMEN OF IRIDIMI.” Since its first showing in 2004 at the Sherry Frumkin Gallery in Santa Monica, California, “THIS LAND…” has been traveling around the country, been selected for the international photography biennial, FOTOFEST, and been used as the core of an innovative high school curriculum by The Michael Harrington Center for Democratic Values and Social Change at Queens College, New York. For more information about “THIS LAND…” go to:http://www.thislandtome.org CONTACT: Ph: 323 913-9202 Email: barbgrover@earthlink.net