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Former Abrams Filmmaker-in-Residence
Ben C. Solomon is a documentary filmmaker, photographer and journalist. He was the inaugural Filmmaker-in-residence at FRONTLINE on PBS. Ben spent 9 years as one of the New York Times’ first foreign multimedia correspondents. He started his career in 2010 as an intern for The New York Times. In 2011, he moved to the Middle East to cover the uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Syria. Since then, he has reported across the Middle east, Africa and the former Soviet Union, covering a variety of events and issues, including the youth in the Arab world, war in Syria, ivory poaching in Africa, the Ukrainian conflict...
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