Janet Jarman is a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. Since 2003, she has been based in Mexico, where she focuses on topics such as human rights, birth justice, immigration, and environmental issues. She recently finished her first feature-length documentary titled Birth Wars with a grant from the MacArthur Foundation and is currently working on a book about the same topic. Jarman’s work has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, GEO, National Geographic and Smithsonian Magazine, amongst others. She has also worked for numerous foundations and NGOs. Her photographs have been featured at Visa Pour l’Image, Perpignan and have received many international photography awards. In 2015, she was the Producer of POY Latam (Pictures of the Year Latin America). She was a reportage judge of Pictures of the Year International (POYi) 2016, and she was part of the jury for the FNPI Premio Gabo in 2018. She was also invited to be a judge of POY Latam 2019. Jarman began her career in South Florida after graduating from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She worked as a staff photographer at The Miami Herald, and later obtained a master’s degree in environmental issues at the University of London.