Aliya Naumoff began her career as a photographer, shooting portraits of her friends in downtown NYC while working for David LaChapelle in the East Village. She moved on to shoot portraits of musicians and celebrities for The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker, while creating global campaigns for Converse and Levi’s.
Aliya traveled to Haiti In 2010 and documented the destruction after the earthquake. She began interviewing women who had lost their homes, and their stories echoed her mother’s who had been a child refugee. Something deep inside her clicked and in that moment, she found her soul’s purpose. Since then, Aliya has been connecting with her subjects to share their stories through short films. From Syrian refugee camps to a presidential election in Liberia, her documentaries reveal an honest perspective into the lives of others.
Focusing on matters close to her heart with the goal of sparking social impact and change, her films represent women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, immigration rights, reproductive rights, indigenous wisdom, and climate change. Her work has been published by The New York Times, Vogue, and National Geographic, and has led her to consult for the Obama Administration and the U.N.
Aliya hopes to amplify the voices of marginalized communities around the world.
