Nina Berman is a documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape.

Her work has been extensively published, exhibited and collected, garnering praise in both the art and journalism worlds. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, awards from the World Press Photo Foundation, and a grant from the Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Fund. She was a Hey, Hot Shot! winner in the spring of 2007.

She is the author of Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq, portraits and interviews with wounded veterans, published by Trolley in 2004, and Homeland, a look at militarism, religion and security in post 9-11 America, published by Trolley in 2008.

She is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography and lives in her hometown, New York City.