Farah Nosh

Farah Nosh is an Iraqi Canadian photojournalist. 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 Nosh was born and grew up in Canada. She attended the University of British Columbia in 1998 to study geography for her BA, and then in 2002 she undertook a diploma in photojournalism at the Western Academy of Photography in Victoria.

Nosh was working as a freelance photographer in Iraq, 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.

Work 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, 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.

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. She also reported on the Iraqi refugee crisis in Damascus. As well as working in Iraq, she has also photographed in Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. 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

Awards 2005: "PDN's 30 2005: Our Choice of Emerging Photographers to Watch", Photo District News 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 2007: National Press Photographers Association – 1st Place Serial Portrait, The New York Times 2007: Pictures of the Year International – 2nd Place Magazine Photographer of the Year