Farah Nosh Explained

Farah Nosh
Birth Place:Canada
Occupation:Photojournalist

Farah Nosh (ar|فرح نوش) is an Iraqi Canadian photojournalist.[1] Her work about Iraq and its conflicts has been exhibited in galleries in the U.S. and UK. She has appeared on the CNN Inside The Middle East segment "Someone You Should Know", which explores different persons and their effects on the region.

Life

Nosh was born and grew up in Canada. She attended the University of British Columbia in 1998 to study geography for her BA,[2] and then in 2002 she undertook a diploma in photojournalism at the Western Academy of Photography in Victoria.[3]

Nosh was working as a freelance photographer in Iraq, and when the U.S.–Iraq war began in 2003, she left the compound where western journalists were based and lived isolated in a small house in western Baghdad with her family.[4] Therefore, she spent the war without much sense of what was going on outside of the area. Subsequently, she has covered both the Iraqi civilian and American military forces sides.[5]

Work

Nosh intends her work to show war's impact on the human condition. She moved in 2002 to work as a freelance photographer in Iraq at the time Saddam Hussein was still in power,[6] 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 and 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 U.S. military and Iraqi citizens. In 2005 Nosh undertook a large-format photography project in Canada and Alaska, documenting the remaining fluent speakers of the Haida language. In 2011 that project culminated with an exhibition and book launch that took place at the Haida Gwaii Museum.[7] [8]

In 2006, because of the steep decline of security in Iraq, there was a lack of support for her projects within Baghdad. She then created a body of work, covertly traveling around Baghdad to record the lives of Iraqis affected by the war. This work won her the Overseas Press Club Award for Feature Photography.[9] She also reported on the Iraqi refugee crisis in Damascus.[10] [11] As well as working in Iraq, she has also photographed in Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt.

Her picture of an Iraqi boy made the cover of Time magazine.

Exhibitions

Awards

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Clark . Nate . 2 June 2015 . Farah Nosh, Canada's War Photographer . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201129221007/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/farah-nosh-canadas-war-ph_b_7485872 . 29 November 2020 . 23 September 2018 . The Huffington Post.
  2. Web site: 2011 . Farah Nosh: Stanley Park After the Storm of December 2006 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240305083738/https://www.sfu.ca/galleries/teck-gallery/past1/farah-nosh.html . 5 March 2024 . 4 September 2024 . Simon Fraser University.
  3. Web site: 3 September 2019 . Award-winning photographer Farah Nosh joins UBC Journalism . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240216145350/https://jwam.ubc.ca/news/award-winning-photographer-farah-nosh-joins-ubc-journalism/ . 16 February 2024 . 4 September 2024 . School of Journalism, Writing, and Media . . en-US.
  4. News: Alldritt . Benjamin . 26 November 2010 . Photographer gives a new perspective; NV resident talks about working in Iraq and Lebanon's war zones . . 23 . 0712-5348 . .
  5. Cusac . Anne-Marie . May 2007 . A Portrait of Iraqis: The 'Art, of Farah Nosh . . 71 . 5 . 31-34 . 0033-0736 . EBSCOhost.
  6. Web site: Gottlieb . Jane . 1 March 2005 . One To Watch: Farah Nosh . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040408/http://www.pdnonline.com/pdnedu/One-To-Watch-Farah--358.shtml . 4 March 2016 . 21 September 2015 . Photo District News.
  7. Web site: Ramsay . Heather . 3 November 2011 . That Which Makes Us Haida . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230604195011/https://thetyee.ca/Books/2011/11/03/Haida-Language/ . 4 June 2023 . 4 September 2024 . The Tyee.
  8. News: Gilpin . Emilee . 25 April 2018 . The Haida language is here to stay . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240613151035/https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/04/25/haida-language-here-stay . 13 June 2024 . 4 September 2024 . Canada's National Observer.
  9. Laurent . Olivier . 23 March 2017 . A Visual Record of Venezuela's Collapse . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231205190621/https://time.com/4709051/venezuela-meridith-kohut/ . 5 December 2023 . 23 September 2018 . Time.
  10. Web site: Team - Contributors - Farah Nosh . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240905031956/https://www.canada150women.com/team . 5 September 2024 . 4 September 2024 . Canada 150 Women . en-GB.
  11. Web site: 29 November 2006 . The Ayoub and Hamza family, 17 family members in total, moments after... . live . https://archive.today/20240905-032223/https://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/the-ayoub-and-hamza-family-17-family-members-in-total-news-photo/72672143 . 5 September 2024 . 4 September 2024 . . en-gb.
  12. Web site: Knight . Christopher . Christopher Knight (art critic) . 15 September 2008 . Suzanne Opton's 'Soldier's Face': After the billboards . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240229092129/https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/culture-monster-blog/story/2008-09-15/suzanne-optons-soldiers-face-after-the-billboards . 29 February 2024 . 4 September 2024 . . en-US.
  13. Web site: 2008 . Exhibition Witness: Casualties of War . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20171021074304/https://photography-now.com/exhibition/59237 . 21 October 2017 . 4 September 2024 . photography-now.com.
  14. Web site: 2012 . That Which Makes Us Haida: the Haida Language . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240515002546/https://www.billreidgallery.ca/blogs/exhibitions-page/that-which-makes-us-haida-the-haida-language . 15 May 2024 . 4 September 2024 . Bill Reid Gallery.
  15. Web site: 17 January 2005 . PDN's 30 2005 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20211030141707/https://pdnonline.com/features/photographer-interviews/pdns-30-2005/ . 30 October 2021 . 30 October 2021 . Photo District News.
  16. News: 2007 . News Archive . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180923124209/https://nppa.org/news/spj-recognizes-osterreicher-dalglish-exceptional-service-j?page=275 . 23 September 2018 . 23 September 2018 . National Press Photographers Association.
  17. Web site: 2007 . Winners List: Sixty-Fourth Pictures of the Year International Competition . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180923124031/http://www.poyi.org/65/winnerslist2007.html . 23 September 2018 . 23 September 2018 . Pictures of the Year International.
  18. News: Walker . David . Lang . Daryl . May 2008 . The Photo Annual the Year in Review . . 30-32,34 . 28 . 5 . 1543-0294 . .

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