Farah Nosh

Farah Nosh (Arabic: فرح نوش‎) is an Iraqi Canadian[1] photojournalist who was born and grew up in Canada.

Life

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. Farah currently resides in New York.

Work

Nosh has worked as a freelance photographer in Iraq at the time Saddam Hussein was still in power,[2] 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.[3]

As well as working in Iraq, she has also photographed in Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere.[3]

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.

References

  1. ↑ Photography
  2. ↑ Gottlieb, Jane. "One To Watch: Farah Nosh". Photo District News. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Farah Bio". photography.about.com. Retrieved 2007-08-30.

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