Anna Boyiazis
Documentary Photographer / Based in Zanzibar, Tanzania
Anna Boyiazis is an American documentary photographer based between Southern California and East Africa. She is a Michel du Cille Fellow, an Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellow, and a National Geographic Society grantee....
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Focus:
Photographer, Photojournalist, Documentary, Freelance, Impact, Fellow, Human Rights, International, Climate, Sports Journalism, Feature Stories, Environmental Stories, Health Stories, Wildlife, Conservation, Still Photographer, Portrait Photography, Reportage, Visual Storyteller
Clients:
GEO Magazine
National Geographic
UNICEF
GEO Magazine
National Geographic
UNICEF
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Available in: Zanzibar, Tanzania
Focused on:
Photographer, Photojournalist, Documentary, Freelance, Impact, Fellow, Human Rights, International, Climate, Sports Journalism, Feature Stories, Environmental Stories, Health Stories, Wildlife, Conservation, Still Photographer, Portrait Photography, Reportage, Visual Storyteller
Coverage Regions:
Africa Asia Europe Latin America Middle East Oceania USA & Canada
Languages Spoken: English (plus a little Greek, Italian, Spanish, and Swahili)
Years of experience: More than 10
HEFAT certification? yes
Anna Boyiazis is an American documentary photographer based between Southern California and East Africa. She is a Michel du Cille Fellow, an Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellow, and a National Geographic Society grantee. Committed to healing and liberation, her areas of focus include human rights, marine and wildlife conservation, public health, and women and girls’ issues. Through her work, she aims to elicit compassion and bring our shared humanity to the fore.
Anna’s long-term project, Finding Freedom in the Water, first published by National Geographic, documents women and girls in Zanzibar learning to swim, an act of emancipation. The project is a Prix Pictet Nominee, and the recipient of a World Press Photo Award, a Getty Images Reportage Grant, and a Women Photograph + Nikon Grant. Exhibitions of this work include the #WomenMatter campaign against violence toward women (Dysturb), Girls on the Brink: Holding on to Fragile Futures (Too Young To Wed), The Photography Show presented by AIPAD (Monroe Gallery of Photography), and Resilience—Stories of Women Inspiring Change (World Press Photo).
She has received first-aid training for combat and wilderness wounds through Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues (RISC) and VICE Hostile Environment Emergency First-Aid Training (HEFAT).
Anna has been a guest speaker at the Austrian Parliament (Vienna), Festival für zeitgenössische Kunst (Basel), the Fowler Museum at UCLA (Los Angeles), United Nations of Photography—A Photographic Life (Oxford), and World Press Photo (Amsterdam, Montréal, Vienna).
Her work is in numerous private collections, including the AIGA Archives at the Denver Art Museum, the Art Collection of the Austrian Parliament, the UCLA Arts Library Artists’ Book Collection, the Yale University Art + Architecture Library, and the Yale University Sterling Memorial Library Arts of the Book Collection.
Anna earned an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BA from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.
Anna’s long-term project, Finding Freedom in the Water, first published by National Geographic, documents women and girls in Zanzibar learning to swim, an act of emancipation. The project is a Prix Pictet Nominee, and the recipient of a World Press Photo Award, a Getty Images Reportage Grant, and a Women Photograph + Nikon Grant. Exhibitions of this work include the #WomenMatter campaign against violence toward women (Dysturb), Girls on the Brink: Holding on to Fragile Futures (Too Young To Wed), The Photography Show presented by AIPAD (Monroe Gallery of Photography), and Resilience—Stories of Women Inspiring Change (World Press Photo).
She has received first-aid training for combat and wilderness wounds through Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues (RISC) and VICE Hostile Environment Emergency First-Aid Training (HEFAT).
Anna has been a guest speaker at the Austrian Parliament (Vienna), Festival für zeitgenössische Kunst (Basel), the Fowler Museum at UCLA (Los Angeles), United Nations of Photography—A Photographic Life (Oxford), and World Press Photo (Amsterdam, Montréal, Vienna).
Her work is in numerous private collections, including the AIGA Archives at the Denver Art Museum, the Art Collection of the Austrian Parliament, the UCLA Arts Library Artists’ Book Collection, the Yale University Art + Architecture Library, and the Yale University Sterling Memorial Library Arts of the Book Collection.
Anna earned an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BA from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.
Clients
GEO Magazine
National Geographic
UNICEF
Education
Yale School of Art
UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture