Anne Holmes received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. Driven by the desire to communicate with a larger audience, and haunted by the imagery the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan brought to daily news, Anne decided to pursue her photojournalistic ambitions in January of 2007. Since then, she has covered conflict, environmental and human rights issues in Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East, and is currently working on a long term documentary on the Kurds. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and her photographs have been published by the likes of The New York Times, The Montreal Gazette, Reuters, Internazionale, Handicap International, Monocle, Silvershotz and Vice. She won 1st Place in the 2008 Black and White Spider Awards for her photo of a young mine victim in Afghanistan, was nominated for the 2009 UNICEF Photo of the Year contest, shortlisted for the 2009 Anthropographia Award, and her multimedia dispatch on the Kenyan Crisis is set to screen at 4 major international photography and film festivals in 2010. She also maintains a robust blog which has been cited widely across the web from PBS to the Daily Dish to Wikipedia as a news and documentary resource. She speaks French and English fluently and has a strong working knowledge of Spanish. To contact Anne for commissioned work or to view private galleries, please direct your mail to info@thelightbox.net, or visit the contact page for more information. You can also keyword Search the Archives. Currently based in France, she is represented by VIA Agency.
In February 2008, Arte/France and ZDF/Germany aired a special program on Zoom Europa about Anne’s coverage of the Kenyan Crisis. Watch it below.
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