Elizabeth Dalziel
Freelance Photographer @ Self Employed / Based in London, United Kingdom
I began my career as a photographer for Siglo 21 newspaper in Guadalajara, My home town, in 1995. In 1997, I photographed a 7 year old Honduran boy travelling across countries to join his mother in the US. This work was picked up...
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Available in: London, United Kingdom
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Coverage Regions:
Africa Asia Europe Latin America Middle East
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish and French
Years of experience: More than 10
HEFAT certification? yes
I began my career as a photographer for Siglo 21 newspaper in Guadalajara, My home town, in 1995.
In 1997, I photographed a 7 year old Honduran boy travelling across countries to join his mother in the US. This work was picked up by the AP, I began contributing photos to Associated Press. Soon after joined as a staff Photographer in the Mexico City bureau, covering Latin America and the Caribbean.
I photographed the Acteal Massacre in Chiapas, the ongoing war on drugs which has torn Mexico apart and cost so many lives and the missing women of Juarez, among many other stories.
I moved to Israel in 2000 to be a photographer for the AP's Jerusalem bureau. I documented the second Intifada. One of my aims was to bring forth stories that showed not only the destruction but the lives being affected by the cycle of violence and how they coped with the conflict that was beset upon them.
From 2002 to 2005 I became the South Asia Photo Editor and Chief Photographer for the AP in New Delhi, coordinating the news coverage of India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives for the agency. Some of the stories I photographed during my time there, were the Tamil Tigers and the 2004 South Asian Tsunami, the Anti Royalist Maoist movement in Nepal and the ongoing conflicts in Kashmir, as well as helping with coverage of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
In 2005 I relocated to China, Where I covered mainland China in the build up to the 2008 Olympics. I tried to document how the country’s economic rise and new disposable income reshaped their people. I Documented the ongoing tensions and dissent in Xing Jiang and Tibet. My role extended to coverage of stories in the Pacific region which included North Korea.
In 2007 I was awarded the John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. I returned to China in 2008 and remained in Beijing until 2010.
In 2010 I relocated to the UK, after I married my husband who I had met in Iraq years earlier.
I am currently based in London, where I work as a freelance photographer in documentary, news, feature and daily life photography.
I have taken part in photographing a variety of news events including the Royal Wedding, The London Riots, the Occupy movement.
With Save the Children I tried to look on UK poverty and it’s effects on children whose parents live from paycheck to paycheck.
As an immigrant to the UK I have tried to highlight the richness that immigrants bring to the country. One of my projects called 5 Londons, focused on Nigerian, Chinese, Indian, Russian and Mulsim communities in London. How they keep traditions and customs alive while integrating in to British society.
As well as working in the UK, while based in London I have travelled to Kenya, where I photographed Maternal Health care in the Masai Mara. This led to a personal project where I documented my own experience as a Mother raising my two boys in Britain, I wrote to opinion pieces for the New York Times Sunday edition which included photo essays from my on going series.
In Democratic Republic of Congo I documented the effects of war on internally displaced refugees as well as young girls fighting period poverty. In Ethiopia I photographed the ravages of changing weather patterns affecting crops and water supplies in the South Omo Valley. In the Sundarbans of India I photographed the effects of Climate Change and how people sought to pursue renewable ennergy sources instead fossil fuel based energy to protect their enviroment from Flood and drought.
I have been a contributor to the New York Times, National Geographic and documented the work carried out by NGOs Save the Children, Christian Aid, Mercy Corps, World Wildlife Foundation, Greenpeace and Ember mental Health foundations among others.
Awards throughout my career, include a Human Rights Photography award from the Rutherford Institute for her coverage of the Acteal Massacre in Chiapas and a John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club of America for my coverage of the Second Intifada. The AP has also recognized my work with a President's award for my coverage of the war in Iraq and a managing editors award for her coverage of the 2004 Tsunami off the coast of Sri Lanka. I received an Award of Excellence in Pictures of the Year International in 2007 for an Issue reporting picture story on the rise of plastic surgery with China's new found disposable income. I also received a POYi in 2016 for my personal project on the Secret Life of Mothers based on my own personal experience navigating life with my two boys. I was also awarded a Best of Photo Journalism award in 2010 in stills in the art and entertainment category. My experience of homeschooling my children won me the 2020 POYi Director's Choice Award for COVID19 Personal Expression
I am currently working with the mental Health Charity Ember, looking at unlikely healthcare providers in unexpecte places in the Southern globe. Trying to raise the visibility of the important work they do which doesn't always follow the traditional western canon.
In 1997, I photographed a 7 year old Honduran boy travelling across countries to join his mother in the US. This work was picked up by the AP, I began contributing photos to Associated Press. Soon after joined as a staff Photographer in the Mexico City bureau, covering Latin America and the Caribbean.
I photographed the Acteal Massacre in Chiapas, the ongoing war on drugs which has torn Mexico apart and cost so many lives and the missing women of Juarez, among many other stories.
I moved to Israel in 2000 to be a photographer for the AP's Jerusalem bureau. I documented the second Intifada. One of my aims was to bring forth stories that showed not only the destruction but the lives being affected by the cycle of violence and how they coped with the conflict that was beset upon them.
From 2002 to 2005 I became the South Asia Photo Editor and Chief Photographer for the AP in New Delhi, coordinating the news coverage of India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives for the agency. Some of the stories I photographed during my time there, were the Tamil Tigers and the 2004 South Asian Tsunami, the Anti Royalist Maoist movement in Nepal and the ongoing conflicts in Kashmir, as well as helping with coverage of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
In 2005 I relocated to China, Where I covered mainland China in the build up to the 2008 Olympics. I tried to document how the country’s economic rise and new disposable income reshaped their people. I Documented the ongoing tensions and dissent in Xing Jiang and Tibet. My role extended to coverage of stories in the Pacific region which included North Korea.
In 2007 I was awarded the John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. I returned to China in 2008 and remained in Beijing until 2010.
In 2010 I relocated to the UK, after I married my husband who I had met in Iraq years earlier.
I am currently based in London, where I work as a freelance photographer in documentary, news, feature and daily life photography.
I have taken part in photographing a variety of news events including the Royal Wedding, The London Riots, the Occupy movement.
With Save the Children I tried to look on UK poverty and it’s effects on children whose parents live from paycheck to paycheck.
As an immigrant to the UK I have tried to highlight the richness that immigrants bring to the country. One of my projects called 5 Londons, focused on Nigerian, Chinese, Indian, Russian and Mulsim communities in London. How they keep traditions and customs alive while integrating in to British society.
As well as working in the UK, while based in London I have travelled to Kenya, where I photographed Maternal Health care in the Masai Mara. This led to a personal project where I documented my own experience as a Mother raising my two boys in Britain, I wrote to opinion pieces for the New York Times Sunday edition which included photo essays from my on going series.
In Democratic Republic of Congo I documented the effects of war on internally displaced refugees as well as young girls fighting period poverty. In Ethiopia I photographed the ravages of changing weather patterns affecting crops and water supplies in the South Omo Valley. In the Sundarbans of India I photographed the effects of Climate Change and how people sought to pursue renewable ennergy sources instead fossil fuel based energy to protect their enviroment from Flood and drought.
I have been a contributor to the New York Times, National Geographic and documented the work carried out by NGOs Save the Children, Christian Aid, Mercy Corps, World Wildlife Foundation, Greenpeace and Ember mental Health foundations among others.
Awards throughout my career, include a Human Rights Photography award from the Rutherford Institute for her coverage of the Acteal Massacre in Chiapas and a John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club of America for my coverage of the Second Intifada. The AP has also recognized my work with a President's award for my coverage of the war in Iraq and a managing editors award for her coverage of the 2004 Tsunami off the coast of Sri Lanka. I received an Award of Excellence in Pictures of the Year International in 2007 for an Issue reporting picture story on the rise of plastic surgery with China's new found disposable income. I also received a POYi in 2016 for my personal project on the Secret Life of Mothers based on my own personal experience navigating life with my two boys. I was also awarded a Best of Photo Journalism award in 2010 in stills in the art and entertainment category. My experience of homeschooling my children won me the 2020 POYi Director's Choice Award for COVID19 Personal Expression
I am currently working with the mental Health Charity Ember, looking at unlikely healthcare providers in unexpecte places in the Southern globe. Trying to raise the visibility of the important work they do which doesn't always follow the traditional western canon.
Education
Knight Fellowship