Gabriela Bulisova is a documentary photographer from the former Czechoslovakia, based in Washington, DC.

Her latest project: “The Option of Last Return: Iraqi Refugees in the United States,” is featured in the Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project’s Moving Walls 18 exhibition (http://www.soros.org/initiatives/photography/news/moving-walls-18-20100804).

Bulisova has received other numerous recognitions and awards, including: the Corcoran School of Art and Design Faculty Grant Award; the Aperture Portfolio Review Top Tier Portfolios of Merit; the CEC ArtsLink Projects grant; the Puffin Foundation Grant; the PDN Annual Photography Competition Winner in Student Category award; and the CANON “Explorer of Light” award. Bulisova was a participant at the Eddie Adams Workshop for emerging photographers and a graduate fellow at the National Graduate Photography Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Bulisova is currently an Adjunct Professor of Photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland and at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Metro Collective Photographic Agency and the Women Photojournalists of Washington. In 2005, Bulisova was awarded the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Digital Imaging from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore.