Maye-E Wong is based in New York as Reuters’ Senior Editor for Wider Image and Special Projects. She runs the agency’s long-form storytelling team that takes on visually-led projects from the ideation stage all the way through to publication, and also represents the agency at photo festivals where she shares her storytelling skills and experience with the new generations of photographers. Prior to Reuters, Maye-E spent two decades at The Associated Press, initially based in her native Singapore and then New York City, as one of their go-to photographers for a remarkable range of assignments, including the Rohingya refugee crisis in Cox’s Bazaar, political unrest in Thailand and Hong Kong, natural disasters, Black Lives Matters in the US, and more than 35 trips to North Korea. Her own photography has won multiple awards and she was a recipient of grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and the IWMF. She served as juror in the 2017 and 2018 World Press Photo contests and sits on the Advisory Board of POY Asia. She has mentored numerous photographers from the IWMF, Women Photograph, NPPA. She sits on the board of directors at the Eddie Adams Workshop where she was also a team editor for two years and currently a team leader.