More About Sonia
Sonia Katchian is an established documentary and fine-art photographer
with photographs in private and public collections, and in museum
collections worldwide. She is co-author of
Women See Woman, published in 1976 by Harper & Row,
has worked for most of the top magazines in the U.S., and is founder
of the photo agency Photo Shuttle: Japan.
She
has photographed Muhammad Ali since 1974 in locations around the
world, and her photos are part of the permanent collection of the
new Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville,
KY, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, among others.
Sonia
was born into an Armenian family in Beirut, Lebanon and came to
the US when she was six. She jokes that she is the only
person she knows who was born in the Middle East, brought up in
the Midwest, and lived in the Far East! She now lives outside
Chapel Hill, NC.
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An online article
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• Hear Dick Gordon “The Story” interviewing Sonia on NPR
