About Me
About Me:
<p> <strong>Anna Boyiazis</strong> is an American documentary photographer based between Southern California and East Africa. Committed to healing and liberation, her areas of focus include conservation, human rights, public health, and women and girls’ issues. Through her work, she aims to elicit compassion and bring our shared humanity to the fore. Her ongoing 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, among others. 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), and Resilience—Stories of Women Inspiring Change (World Press Photo Foundation). Anna is a contributing photographer for National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, GEO, ESPN, and UNICEF. She has received first aid training for combat and wilderness wounds through Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues (RISC) and VICE Hostile Environment and Emergency First Aid Training (HEFAT). She 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). Anna earned an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BA from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. </p>
<p> <strong>Anna Boyiazis</strong> is an American documentary photographer based between Southern California and East Africa. Committed to healing and liberation, her areas of focus include conservation, human rights, public health, and women and girls’ issues. Through her work, she aims to elicit compassion and bring our shared humanity to the fore. Her ongoing 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, among others. 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), and Resilience—Stories of Women Inspiring Change (World Press Photo Foundation). Anna is a contributing photographer for National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, GEO, ESPN, and UNICEF. She has received first aid training for combat and wilderness wounds through Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues (RISC) and VICE Hostile Environment and Emergency First Aid Training (HEFAT). She 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). Anna earned an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BA from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. </p>
