Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Anastasia Taylor-Lind (born 1981) is an English/Swedish photojournalist. She works for leading editorial publications globally on issues relating to women, population and war. She has lived in Damascus, Beirut, Kiev and New York City and is now based in London. As a photographic storyteller, Taylor-Lind's work has focused on long-form narrative reportage for monthly magazines. Life and work Taylor-Lind was born in Swindon in 1981. and completed degrees in documentary photography from the University of Wales, Newport, (BA) and the London College of Communication (MA). In 2003 whilst studying for her degree she spent a month in Iraqi Kurdistan photographing female Peshmerga fighters, the Peshmerga Force for Women. As a photographic storyteller, Taylor-Lind's work has focused on long-form narrative reportage for monthly magazines. She is a National Geographic contributor, and other clients include Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, British Journal of Photography, 6 Mois, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Telegraph, Human Rights Watch, Wired, and Nieman Reports Taylor-Lind has been engaged with education, teaching at leading universities around the world. She is a TED fellow and gave a talk at the 2014 TED conference in Rio De Janeiro. Taylor-Lind is also Harvard Nieman fellow 2016, where she