sentences:  She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, several photojournalism awards, including two World Press Photo Foundation awards (one of which was for her portrait "Marine Wedding" of Tyler Ziegel, a wounded Marine, and his bride), and a Hasselblad award.She is a former teacher at the International Center of Photography in New York City.In 2005, Berman received the first Open Society Institute documentary distribution grant and traveled to high schools around the USA with Army veteran Robert Acosta presenting and exhibiting the Purple Hearts project.