Tim Freccia

Tim's work has been featured in VICE Magazine, The New York Times, Business Week, Al Jazeera, BBC, Global Post, Neue Züricher Zeitung, The Age, The National, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, AP, Stern Online, TIME Magazine and a variety of other print and broadcast outlets. Tim Freccia was born in Seattle and began his working career as an Alaska fisherman at age sixteen. After graduating from art school in 1989 he has covered crisis and conflict worldwide. Tim worked in Haiti for USAID, PBS and various print outlets from 1989-1991, and obtained an exclusive interview with General Raoul Cedras, following the first coup that ousted Jean Bertrand Aristide. Through the 1990s, Tim worked in North and West Africa shooting stills and video, including interviews with Nelson Mandela and Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade. In the mid-1990s Tim settled in Berlin Germany, was a co-founder and creative director of three full-service communications agencies, and shot commercial stills and video, servicing large multinationals including Unilever. In 2005, Tim spent ten months covering the Indian Ocean Tsunami response. Tim shot stills and video, producing over 100 hours of footage- the largest existing archive of motion picture material acquired in Aceh Province, Indonesia. In 2007, Tim designed, and acted as Creative Director for an IPTV (interactive television) platform with Deutsche Telekom, and delivered a series of still photo and video dispatches from Kashmir. Tim has produced still photography and motion pictures for a number of NGOs and organizations including the UN, George Clooney's Not On Our Watch, CARE International, Human Rights Watch, World Vision and the German umbrella fund raising organization Aktion Deutschland Hilft, in Europe, Asia and Africa. In November 2008, Tim traveled to Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo and began a series of ongoing dispatches on the war and humanitarian crisis there. He spent the beginning of 2010 documenting Haiti's 7.0 earthquake, and has made a number of trips to Mogadishu, Somalia over the last years. Recently he has worked in South Sudan with actors and activists George Clooney and Mia Farrow, and produced the documentary film entitled "Cowboy Capitalists". Tim is based in New York, working in Eastern/Southern Europe, Africa and the Middle East.