The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film honors the work of photographers all around the world whose impacting images of hope, despair, of atrocities committed in Gods name; of the landless, the disenfranchised, the ill, the forgotten — bear witness to man’s ability to construct and to destroy his environment and himself. The foundation was created in 2010, by Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, a documentary photographer and journalist with a Master’s Degree from Columbia University’s Joseph Pulitzer Graduate School of Journalism in the City of New York. In 2012, the Pulitzer school named Rivera-Ortiz’ photographic work titled “Faces of Poverty” as one of the 50 Great Stories created by alumni in the 100-year history of the school. Rivera-Ortiz lives in New York and in Switzerland where the foundation currently has its headquarters.