Farah Nosh (Arabic: فرح نوش) is an Iraqi Canadian photojournalist.[1] 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.
Nosh was working as a freelance photographer in Iraq,[2][4] and when the U.S.–Iraq war began in 2003, she left the compound where western journalists were based and lived isolated in a small house in western Baghdad with her family.[5] 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.[3][6]
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,[2][3][4] 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.[2][3] In 2005 Nosh undertook a large-format photography project in Canada and Alaska, documenting the remaining fluent speakers of the Haida language.[2] In 2011 that project culminated with an exhibition and book launch that took place at the Haida Gwaii Museum.[7][8]
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.[9] She also reported on the Iraqi refugee crisis in Damascus.[10][11] As well as working in Iraq, she has also photographed in Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt.[1][2][3]
Her picture of an Iraqi boy made the cover of Time magazine.
Exhibitions
Witness: Casualties of War, 2008, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA[12][13]
^Alldritt, Benjamin (26 November 2010). "Photographer gives a new perspective; NV resident talks about working in Iraq and Lebanon's war zones". North Shore News. p. 23. ISSN0712-5348. ProQuest814454925.
^Cusac, Anne-Marie (May 2007). "A Portrait of Iraqis: The 'Art, of Farah Nosh". The Progressive. 71 (5): 31–34. ISSN0033-0736.
