2024 Featured Photographers
Aryana Michelle Noroozi
Photojournalist
Aryana Noroozi is a documentary photographer, multimedia journalist, and digital artist. Noroozi’s interest in documenting true stories began when she stumbled upon the 2018 World Press Photo Exhibition in the Netherlands.
Through visual storytelling, Noroozi explores the connection between the subject and viewer, aiming to bridge gaps in the unfamiliar by identifying similarities in the human condition while documenting the differences to foster understanding.
She graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2020 and is a 2020 GroundTruth Project Migration Fellow, and a 2020 Pulitzer Crisis Reporting Fellow .
The Changing Landscape of California’s Warehouse Boomtown
In Southern California’s Inland Empire, east of Los Angeles, the rise of online shopping has fueled unprecedented growth in the warehousing industry–leading to new economic opportunities, as well as some of the worst air pollution in the country. Aryana Noroozi spent 18 months documenting the issue.
A Bloomington resident wears a traditional Mexican dress as she rides her horse at the David Jayne Equestrian Arena where residents finished a march in protest of the Bloomington Business Park Specific Plan. Warehouses have continued to pop up in Bloomington and other communities across the Inland Empire where Mexican ranch culture still flourishes.
