Farah Nosh

Farah Nosh 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.