Bryan Meltz is a freelance photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a documentary and portrait photographer and has focused much of her work on long-term projects on social and humanitarian issues. She has been a regular contributor to the New York Times since 2012, working on stories ranging from dog training inside a Georgia prison, poverty in the rural south, to a story last year about a senior ice hockey league in Northern California. Her work has also been commissioned by Rolling Stone, The Fader, Time Magazine, Vice, Financial Times and more. She has collaborated with numerous nonprofit organizations which has led to her work in Uganda and a long-term project in Haiti.