Farah Nosh

Farah Nosh
Born
Canada
OccupationPhotojournalist

Farah Nosh (Arabic: 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

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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.[2][3]

Nosh was working as a freelance photographer in Iraq,[2][4] 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.[5] 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.[3][6]

Work

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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,[2][3][4] 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.[2][3] In 2005 Nosh undertook a large-format photography project in Canada and Alaska, documenting the remaining fluent speakers of the Haida language.[2] 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 elsewhere.[1][2][3]

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

Exhibitions

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  • Witness: Casualties of War, 2008, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA[12][13]
  • War and Medicine, 2008/9, Wellcome Collection, London
  • Blow Out, 2009, The Empty Quarter Fine Art Photography Gallery, DIFC, Dubai
  • That Which Makes Us Haida – The Haida Language, 2011, Haida Gwaii Museum, Haida Heritage Centre, Haida Gwaii[7][8]
  • Stanley Park After the Storm of 2006, 2011/12, Teck Gallery, SFU, Vancouver
  • That Which Makes Us Haida – The Haida Language, 2012, Bill Reid Gallery, Vancouver[14]

Awards

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  • 2005: "PDN's 30 2005: Our Choice of Emerging Photographers to Watch", Photo District News[15]
  • 2006: National Geographic Magazine Development Grant
  • 2007: Nominated for ICP Infinity Award for Photojournalism
  • 2007: Photo District News Nikon Storyteller Award
  • 2007: National Press Photographers Association – 1st Place Single Portrait, Time magazine[16]
  • 2007: National Press Photographers Association – 1st Place Serial Portrait, The New York Times[16]
  • 2007: Pictures of the Year International – 1st Place Magazine Portrait, Time magazine[17]
  • 2007: Pictures of the Year International – 2nd Place Magazine Photographer of the Year[17]
  • 2007: Overseas Press Club of America – 1st Place Feature Photography, Time magazine[9][18]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Clark, Nate (2 June 2015). "Farah Nosh, Canada's War Photographer". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Farah Nosh: Stanley Park After the Storm of December 2006". Simon Fraser University. 2011. Archived from the original on 5 March 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Award-winning photographer Farah Nosh joins UBC Journalism". School of Journalism, Writing, and Media. University of British Columbia. 3 September 2019. Archived from the original on 16 February 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  4. ^ a b Gottlieb, Jane (1 March 2005). "One To Watch: Farah Nosh". Photo District News. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  5. ^ Alldritt, Benjamin (26 November 2010). "Photographer gives a new perspective; NV resident talks about working in Iraq and Lebanon's war zones". North Shore News. p. 23. ISSN 0712-5348. ProQuest 814454925.
  6. ^ Cusac, Anne-Marie (May 2007). "A Portrait of Iraqis: The 'Art, of Farah Nosh". The Progressive. 71 (5): 31–34. ISSN 0033-0736 – via EBSCOhost.
  7. ^ a b Ramsay, Heather (3 November 2011). "That Which Makes Us Haida". The Tyee. Archived from the original on 4 June 2023. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  8. ^ a b Gilpin, Emilee (25 April 2018). "The Haida language is here to stay". Canada's National Observer. Archived from the original on 13 June 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  9. ^ a b Laurent, Olivier (23 March 2017). "A Visual Record of Venezuela's Collapse". Time. Archived from the original on 5 December 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  10. ^ "Team - Contributors - Farah Nosh". Canada 150 Women. Archived from the original on 5 September 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  11. ^ "The Ayoub and Hamza family, 17 family members in total, moments after..." Getty Images. 29 November 2006. Archived from the original on 5 September 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  12. ^ Knight, Christopher (15 September 2008). "Suzanne Opton's 'Soldier's Face': After the billboards". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 29 February 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  13. ^ "Exhibition Witness: Casualties of War". photography-now.com. 2008. Archived from the original on 21 October 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  14. ^ "That Which Makes Us Haida: the Haida Language". Bill Reid Gallery. 2012. Archived from the original on 15 May 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  15. ^ "PDN's 30 2005". Photo District News. 17 January 2005. Archived from the original on 30 October 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  16. ^ a b "News Archive". National Press Photographers Association. 2007. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  17. ^ a b "Winners List: Sixty-Fourth Pictures of the Year International Competition". Pictures of the Year International. 2007. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  18. ^ Walker, David; Lang, Daryl (May 2008). "The Photo Annual the Year in Review". Photo District News. Vol. 28, no. 5. pp. 30–32, 34. ISSN 1543-0294. ProQuest 202870714.
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