Anne Holmes is a freelance photojournalist, writer and producer of multimedia reportage. She is also a classically trained artist, having 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 in 2007 to pursue her photojournalistic ambitions. Since then, she has covered conflict, environmental and human rights issues in Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, and is currently working on a long term documentary on the Kurds. Her writings and/or photographs have been published by the likes of The New York Times, The Montreal Gazette, Reuters, Internazionale, Handicap International, Monocle, Silvershotz, Ekstrabladet, The Kathmandu Post, ZMagazine and Vice UK. 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 this year, including the Human Rights Film Festivals of Montreal and Geneva, and NY Photo Festival 2010. She also manages a robust blog which has been cited widely across the web from PBS to Wikipedia as a news and documentary resource. 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 a member of VIA Portugal.
In February 2008, Arte/France and ZDF/Germany aired a special program on Zoom Europa about Anne’s coverage of the Kenyan Crisis. Watch below.
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