John Stanmeyer

John Stanmeyer (born March 1964), is an American photojournalist based in Otis, Massachusetts.

[citation needed] His career began at the Tampa Tribune in Tampa, Florida where he began working on international assignments traveling to various African and European countries and India.

He then shifted his focus to freelance work on Asian and Middle-Eastern events.

His work has centered on Asian and Middle-Eastern political and human rights issues for the past 11 years, and more recently on the environment and sustainability.

[citation needed] In 2016, along with Anush Babajanyan and Serra Akcan, he started Bridging Stories, a photography training programme for Turks and Armenians to take and share pictures of their daily life on Instagram, in order to promote understanding between their peoples.