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Biography

Ted Lieverman is an independent documentary photographer and writer, focusing on issues of work, social justice and post-conflict communities.  He has photographed in a number of different countries as well as in the U.S.  His photos and stories have appeared in Global Post, Consortium News, Vietnam Magazine, Huffington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Asia-Pacific Journal, The Progressive (online), thINKing Dance, Transconflict, and several legal publications and NGO websites.  He is a member of the National Press Photographers Association, the Philadelphia Pen and Pencil Club, and an associate member of The News Guild/Communication Workers of America.

Lieverman is a former photographer for Northstar Productions and an associate producer for their documentary film Guazapa: Yesterday’s Enemies about post-war El Salvador.  He has focused his work on long-term stories. From 2013 through 2017, he covered the search for land mines and unexploded ordinance in former conflict zones. From 2019 through 2023, he embedded with a platoon of Philadelphia fire fighters working the night shift to photograph their work.

He is a graduate of Vassar College and Northeastern University Law School.  He was an accredited international observer for the Cambodian parliamentary elections in 1998 and 2003.  In 2011, he received a grant from the Fulbright Specialist Program to lecture on election reform in Belgrade, Serbia, and also taught election law at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.  He is a former chair of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development, a U.S.-based NGO working in Southeast Asia and Cuba.

Harvey: Eyes on the Struggle is his first feature-length film.

Films