Holy Fire ceremony
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Palestinian woman hurls stone during clashes in Hebron.
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Funeral of Hillel Lieberman
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Palestinian girls during clashes in east Jerusalem.
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Peace Now Rally in Israel
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Palestinians clash with Israeli troops
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Palestinian throws rocks towards Israelis soldiers in Bethlehem.
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Palestinian gunmen march in refugee camp.
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Palestinian boy wets pants as he is arrested in Jerusalem.
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Grandfather secretly teaches his grandson to read Arabic
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Palestinan boy cries during funeral.
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the radical Islamic Hamas group
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Mosque in the Fergana Valley
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Uzbek men during Friday prayers
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Muslim women's group FOCUS train for avalanche rescues
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Kurdish women work in field in Lebanon.
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Rwanda genocide prisoners
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Girls carry water home in dusty Eritrea
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Woman herds skinny cattle in Ethiopia
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Young man works in cocoa field in Ivory Coast
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Woman sits by carcass in Ethiopia
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Samburu people in Maralal, Kenya.
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Child slave holds cocoa pods in Ivory Coast
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Ethnic conflict in Congo
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Women wait for grain distribution in Eritrea
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Rally for UPC president Thomas Lubanga in Bunia
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Woman sifts cocoa beans at Nestle purchasing center in Ivory Coast
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Freed child slave sleeps on bench in Ivory Coast
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Hardships in Africa
Credit: Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris
Evelyn Hockstein
Evelyn Hockstein is a freelance photojournalist currently based in Nairobi, Kenya. She covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Arab world since 1998. In 2002 she was awarded a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism to travel to Tajikistan and study at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. In 2001 she was awarded 3rd prize for her Intifada coverage in the NPPA Best of Photojournalism contest and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of child slavery in West Africa. She has covered the funerals of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and Jordan's King Hussein, as well as feature assignments in Iraq and Lebanon. Her work has been published in various international publications including The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, The International Herald Tribune, Stern, L'Express, U.S. News and World Report, The Washington Post, and Sports Illustrated for Women. She obtained a Bachelor's of Arts in Diplomatic History from the University of Pennsylvania.