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Rosa Furneaux is a photographer and journalist based in London, England.

Her images have been published in national and international outlets including The GuardianThe San Francisco Chronicle, STAT, Pacific Standard, and Mother Jones.

Her reporting interests cover human rights, health, climate and women’s issues. With a focus on international journalism, Rosa has previously reported in East Africa, including assignments in Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya. She was recently based in San Francisco, California.

She completed her Masters in Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied photojournalism and narrative non-fiction writing. In 2018, she received the university's Dorothea Lange Fellowship to continue a photographic project documenting the lives of adolescent sex workers in northern Kenya.

Her work was included in The Guardian's Best Photographs of 2017. She is an alum of the Eddie Adams Workshop, and a member of Women Photograph.


 

Awards & Honours

Eddie Adams Workshop XXXI

UC Berkeley Dorothea Lange Fellowship, 2018

Wayne F. Miller Award for Excellence in Photojournalism 2018

The Guardian's Best Photographs of 2017

Photographer's Forum Best of Photography Finalist, 2017

NPPA Student Clip Contest, 3rd Place Sports Feature, Q3 2017

1st Place Photography Award, Open Generation, April 2015
Photography mentorship under artist Gayle Chong Kwan, in partnership with Autograph ABP

Contact

rosa.furneaux@gmail.com

+44 (0)7493 665 052

@rosafurneaux