Jane Hahn is a Korean-American independent photojournalist and documentary photographer. She began her career in West Africa in 2007 subsequently documenting the plight of civilians in conflicts and humanitarian crises in Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Central African Republic, and South Sudan. She also focused on challenges and solutions to climate change, migration, children’s safety and education, and everyday life across the continent and beyond. She returned to the US at the end of 2019 continuing ongoing projects on the world's groundwater crisis and women's safety. Working regularly with publications including the Washington Post, New York Times, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, etc. and numerous humanitarian organizations, she also served as a Women Photograph mentor and an International Women's Media Fund fellow documenting El Salvador’s water crisis. She received funding from the Pulitzer Center to explore the community response to insecurity in Central Nigeria, the Open Society Institute of West Africa to document the effects of the Boko Haram Crisis on the environmentally fragile Lake Chad Basin, and from Inside NatGeo to investigate community solutions to vaccine inequity in South Los Angeles. She currently focuses on the American West.