Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Anastasia Taylor-Lind is an English photographer.

Life and work

Taylor-Lind gained degrees from the University of Wales, Newport and London College of Communication^[1] where she was under guidance from Ron Haviv.

After graduation she was working in Damascus, Syria for such magazines and newspapers as The Sunday Times, Marie Claire and The Guardian Weekend.

Her works were exhibited in such places as The Frontline Club in London, Oude Kerk in Amsterdam and various Fovea exhibitions in New York.

In 2004 she received the Observer Hodge award and two years later was awarded with The Guardian photography award. From 2007 to 2009 she was nominated for the Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographers Award. Her photo coverage of Nagorno-Karabakh's women called The National Womb won her an award.^[2]

Her photography is known for a depiction of women that live in the hardships of their surroundings. Such an example will be her photographic report on the PKK party in Kurdistan which was known for female combatants.

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