Robert Polidori was born in Montreal in 1951 and today lives in Ojai, California. Polidori’s work has been the subject of numerous international exhibitions, and he received the World Press Photo Award in 1997, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography in 1999 and 2000, and Communication Arts Awards in 2007 and 2008. In 2006 his series of photographs of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Polidori’s bestselling books Havana (2002), Zones of Exclusion – Pripyat and Chernobyl (2004), After the Flood (2006), Parcours Muséologique Revisité (2009), Some Points in Between ... Up Till Now (2010), Eye and I (2014) and Chronophagia (2014) are all published by Steidl.