Mike kamber attended Parsons School of design and has worked as a freelance photojournalist and journalist since 1986.
He has covered conflicts in Iraq,Afghanistan,the Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire, Somalia, Haiti, Israel, the congo and other countries.
He has also worked as a writer for The New york times, contributing numerous article from Haiti and west Africa.
Kamber is a former Revson fellow at comlumbia University.
He is the winner of the Mike Berger Award, the Missouri school of Journalism's Lifestyle Award, the Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Award, American Photo Images of the Year and is a member of The New York Times team that won the 2003 Overseas Press Club award.
He has been nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize-twice for photography and once for his reporting.
He was until recently attached to the Baghdad Bureau of The New york Times.