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The Kurdish Question

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:50:03 +0000

In November 2008, I launched a long-term documentary project on the Kurds. A selection of images is now available, and interested parties may view the entire archive by requesting a password via email at info@thelightbox.net.

Interview on E-photoreview

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:49:17 +0000

Anne Holmes – Crisis on the Border on e-photoreview.

Upcoming Exhibition: NY Photo Festival

admin — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:29:38 +0000

In conjunction with Anthropographia and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), my multimedia dispatch The Kenyan Crisis will be screened this year during NY Photo Festival on Saturday, May 15 at 8 p.m. at the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza in NYC. The I will be present at this event.

Upcoming Exhibition: Montreal Human Rights Film Festival

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:02:09 +0000

My multimedia dispatch The Kenyan Crisis will be shown on the big screen along with 9 other web documentaries on human rights issues around the world. More information about the festival and screenings is available on the official website

Date: Sunday, March 14, 2010

Time: 7:00pm

Location: ONF Theater 1564 rue St Denis, Montreal Canada

Upcoming Exhibition: Geneva Film Festival and International Forum on Human Rights

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:21:00 +0000

The Kenyan Crisis Multimedia Dispatch, a photo-documentary I put together on the post-election violence using the music of cellist extraordinaire, Zoe Keating, will show on the big screen along with other multimedia works on human rights issues at the Geneva Film Festival and International Forum on Human Rights (March 5 to March 14). The address in Geneva is:

Maison des Arts du Grütli

16 rue du Général Dufour

1205 Genève

I will be present at the opening. My understanding is the reception is not a public event, but information is available on the festival’s official website about entry fees, accreditation, and access for the duration of the forum and exhibit.

The Ilisu Dam Project

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:32:21 +0000

Turkey has plans to build a massive dam on the Tigris river that would displace an estimated 55,000 people, submerge a 10,000-year old city, and could reduce water flow to neighboring Iraq and Syria by approximately 50%. Water disputes have troubled relations between the riparian countries for years. Existing Turkish dams on the Euphrates have already reduced water flow, and Turkey has not always respected the output levels agreed upon, well aware that their upper hand on the issue is a powerful political leverage tool. The project is sited by concerned watchdog groups as one that has the potential to lead to a water war. Not since the Three Gorges Dam has there been a more controversial project. Several European countries were financing the project until last summer, when, under pressure from the public, due to Turkey’s failure to adhere to international standards, they pulled out. The state recently acquired the necessary credits from Turkish banks, and construction has resumed.

This is a work in progress. To see a selection of images, click to view My Archive.

Crisis on the Border

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:29:27 +0000

I spent a month wandering around the desert of Eastern Chad, where a quarter million Darfur refugees are sustained by international aid agencies. European troops had just arrived under UN mandate to mount a peace-keeping mission to protect aid workers, locals and refugees from bandits and violence spilling over the border with Sudan. Darfuris fled a conflict over basic resources in Sudan 6 years ago, to a country already struggling with its own limitations, ushering Eastern Chad into a conflict of its own. These photographs were taken in 2008, but the situation remains the same: critical.

Color Me Night

admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:29:26 +0000

I’m in the process of putting together a book born of several years of travel, in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. It’s a collection of images, words, memories, and rewritten glories; moments lived under the cover of night, when the world goes to sleep, and another one awakens.

The texts are a composite of sensory recollections, imagined encounters and edited conversations. They are not meant to tell the story of the persons pictured, but rather, narrate the textural memory I formed of certain intervals or events around the time I made the photographs.

More information about purchasing the book will be posted as the project comes to fruition. Interested parties may contact me for access to a private gallery of images.

About Anne Holmes

admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:19:12 +0000

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.

Contact

admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:51:50 +0000

Inquiries can be directed to info@thelightbox.net. Should a lengthy silence follow, I might be on assignment somewhere where there is no internet (yes, such places do exist). In that case, please direct your mail to my agency VIA by contacting Diana Botas db@via-visuals.com or Miguel Ferndandes mrf@via-visuals.com. If you would like to buy prints, you can do so through my ARCHIVE by signing up for an account. Licensing is also possible for the majority of my work directly through the Photo Shelter archive, the leading industry standard for online archiving, distribution and sales of images for independent professional photographers .