Isadora Kosofsky (b. 1993) is an American documentary photographer, photojournalist, and filmmaker, who began photographing at the age of fourteen. Induced by the loss of her grandmother, she started documenting individuals in hospice care. At the age of 16, she worked on a photo reportage in a Romanian youth prison, becoming the youngest journalist to ever work in a penal setting.
Kosofsky has contributed to the NY Times, TIME, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, The Washington Post, Stern, Le Monde, M le Magazine du Monde, GEO Germany, Paris Match, The London Sunday Times, The Guardian, Slate, Internazionale, and many others. She is the recipient of the 2012 Inge Morath Award from the Magnum Foundation for her multi-series work on the aged. She was nominated for a 2016 Lead Award (German Pulitzer) for her long-term documentary about a senior citizen love triangle.
She is a recipient of a 2018 Grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting for her ongoing work on girl survivors of complex trauma.
Isadora Kosofsky is a TED Fellow, part of a network of 450 global change makers, and gave a talk at TED 2018 in Vancouver.