ABSTRACT
Ellen Tolmie was the Senior Photography Editor at UNICEF from 1990 to 2013, directing the organization’s global photography operations. This included contracting photographers worldwide to document the situation of children, in daily life and in crisis; and creating and promoting global policies for the photographing of children—by international professionals and by children themselves—and for the appropriate use of such images, consistent with UNICEF’s commitment to child and other human rights. She has contributed to various publications and forums, particularly on the subject of visual representations of children, including in the books The Rights of Children (2009), Full of Grace (2007), and The End of Polio (2003). She was previously an editorial and documentary photographer in Toronto, New York, and Bogotá, and continues to write on issues related to visual representation.
