Farah Nosh
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Farah Nosh (Arabic: فرح نوش) is an Iraqi Canadian[1] photojournalist who was born and grew up in Canada.
Nosh attended the University of British Columbia in 1998 to study geography for her BA, and then in 2002 she undertook a diploma in photojournalism at the Western Academy of Photography in Victoria, she also holds many college awards for her work. She has worked as a freelance photographer in Iraq at the time Saddam Hussein was still in power, along with a few other western journalists, in which she appeared in Life, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, Marie Claire, The Globe & Mail, The National Post and The Toronto Star. Since the Iraq war started in 2003, she has been paying frequent visits to Iraq working with the US military and Iraqi citizens.[2]
As well as working in Iraq, she has also photographed in Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere.[2]
Farah currently resides in New York with her family.
[edit] Trivia
- Her picture of an Iraqi boy made the cover of Time magazine.
- In March 2005 Photo District News (PDN) chose Farah as one of the top Thirty Emerging Photographers.
[edit] References
- ^ Photography
- ^ a b "Farah Bio". photography.about.com. http://photography.about.com/od/hqphotographers/a/farahnosh.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
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