Photojournalist Mary F. Calvert is committed to using photography to affect meaningful social change and is known for producing work on gender based, human rights issues. Calvert believes that journalists have a duty to shine a light into the deepest recesses of the human experience and provide a mirror for society to examine itself.
Calvert is the 2015 recipient of the National Press Photographers Association, Cliff Edom New America Award, the 2014 recipient of the Alexia Foundation Women’s Initiative Grant and in 2013 was awarded the Canon Female Photojournalist Award at Visa PourL’Image in Perpignan, France for her ongoing project “The Battle Within: Sexual Assault in America’s Military.”