Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Anastasia Taylor-Lind (born 1981) is an English/Swedish photojournalist.^[1][2] She works for leading editorial publications globally on issues relating to women, population and war. She has lived in Damascus, Beirut, Kyiv 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.^[2] 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.^[3]

As a photographic storyteller, Taylor-Lind's work has focused on long-form narrative reportage for monthly magazines. She is a National Geographic contributor,^[4][5] and other clients include Vanity Fair,^[6] The New Yorker,^[7] Time,^[8] The New York Times,^[9] British Journal of Photography,^[10] 6 Mois,^[11] Bloomberg Businessweek,^[12] The Telegraph,^[13][14][15] Human Rights Watch,^[16] Wired,^[17] and Nieman Reports^[18]

Taylor-Lind has been engaged with education, teaching at leading universities around the world. She is a TED fellow^[19] and gave a talk at the 2014 TED conference^[20] in Rio De Janeiro. Taylor-Lind is also Harvard Nieman fellow 2016,^[21][22] where she spent a year researching war, and how we tell stories about modern conflict. She is also a Logan fellow 2017 at the Carey Institute for Global Good.^[23]

Her first book Maidan: Portraits from the Black Square, which documents the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv, was published by GOST books the same year, reviewed in the British Journal of Photography and The Guardian. The Guardian's Sean O'Hagan wrote of the book^[24]

Maidan – Portraits from the Black Square is a powerfully concentrated statement, both about the nature and cost of violent protest. It eschews the familiar route of visceral, on-the-ground reportage for something more restrained and considered. You look into the faces of these ordinary people and you cannot help but wonder what it took to bring them to this point and what has happened to them since.^[24]

She published her second monograph, The Devil's Horsemen, in September 2018.^[25]

A wide variety of organizations have recognized and supported her projects through awards such as the Pictures of the Year International,^[26] Sony World Photography Awards,^[27][28] Royal Photographic Society Bursaries and the FNAC Grant at Visa pour l'Image.^[29]

In 2016, Taylor-Lind served on the World Press Photo jury.^[30]

Together with journalist Alisa Sopova, Taylor-Lind has been documenting the war in eastern Ukraine since it began. Her work has been published in The New York Times,^[31] Time^[32] the Associated Press^[33] and the BBC World Service.^[34]

In 2019 Taylor-Lind documented New York City's childcare crisis for Time magazine. An exhibition of the work will be shown as one of Fotografiska's inaugural exhibitions opening in 2020.^[35]

In 2020, Taylor-Lind published a photo album series titled "5 km from the frontline", which showcased the reality of everyday life Ukrainians who live near the front line of the frozen conflict in Donbas.^[36] Her 2023 exposition "Ukraine: Photographs from the Frontline" was presented at the Imperial War Museum and subsequently at Verdun's Memorial. She was injured in June 2023 in a missile attack in Kramtorsk.^[37]

Publications

Publications by Taylor-Lind

• Maidan: Portraits from the Black Square. London: GOST, 2014. ISBN 978-0-9574272-8-0. 160 pages. Edition of 750 copies. With an interview with Taylor-Lind by Gordon MacDonald.
• "In the Picture with Anastasia Taylor-Lind: Maidan – Portraits from the Black Square". Frontline Club. London, July 2014.
• The Devil's Horsemen. London. Published September 2018. ISBN 978-1-9164150-03 368 pages. Edition of 3000 copies.

Publications with contributions by Taylor-Lind

• The Making of Maidan by Sebastian Meyer, 2014.
• Honest pictures of war: Anastasia Taylor-Lind, ABC News. London, December 2015.
• One Photographer's Small Project To Personalize Brutal East Ukraine War, Hromadske International, July 2015.
• Great Britons of Photography Vol.1: The Dench Dozen. Eastbourne, UK: Hungry Eye, 2016. ISBN 978-0-9926405-2-1. Edited by Peter Dench. With photographs by and transcripts of interviews between Dench and Taylor-Lind, Jocelyn Bain Hogg, Marcus Bleasdale, Harry Borden, John Bulmer, Chris Floyd, Brian Griffin, Laura Pannack, Martin Parr, Tom Stoddart, and Homer Sykes. 160 pages. Edition of 500 copies.

Awards

• 2004: "Highly Commended" in the Observer Hodge award^[38]
• 2006: Top prize and winner of Portrait category, Guardian Weekend Photography Prize, The Guardian^[39][40][41]
• 2007 to 2009: Nominated for the Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographers Award^{[citation needed]}
• 2009: Winner, Deutsche Bank Awards in photography^[42]
• 2011: Selected for the World Press Photo, Joop Swart Masterclass World Press Photo^[43]
• 2012: 3rd place, Arts Culture, Professional, Sony World Photography Awards, World Photography Organisation, London^[44]
• 2012: Shortlist, Professional Competition, Sony World Photography Awards, World Photography Organisation, London^[45]
• 2014: Ted Fellow Recipient, TED^[46]
• 2016: Nieman Fellowship Recipient, Harvard University^[47]

References

1. Anastasia, Taylor-Lind. "Anastasia Taylor-Lind". Anastasia Taylor-Lind.
2. Andreasson, Karin (23 January 2014). "Anastasia Taylor-Lind's best photo: A wedding in Nagorno-Karabakh". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
3. "Student snaps war rebels in Iraq". BBC News. 18 February 2004. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
4. "Return to River Town". National Geographic. March 2013. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019.
5. "Anastasia Taylor-Lind: The Most Frightening Thing About War". National Geographic. 24 September 2014. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019.
6. "Did Israel Avert a Hamas Massacre?". Vanity Fair. 21 October 2014.
7. Steavenson, Wendell (12 November 2012). "Two Revolutions: What has Egypt's transition meant for its women?". The New Yorker.
8. "Anastasia Taylor-Lind". Time. 8 March 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
9. Taylor-Lind, Anastasia (13 June 2014). "Opinion: Portraits from Kiev". The New York Times.
10. "Anastasia Taylor-Lind shows Rohingya women's dignity amid horror". British Journal of Photography. 16 January 2018.
11. "Les Demoiselles Cosaques". 6 Mois.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
12. "These Women Are Paying the Price for Our Digital World". Bloomberg Businessweek. 15 June 2017.
13. Brown, Mick. "India 2.0". The Telegraph.
14. Brown, Mick. "India 2.0 Part Two". The Telegraph.
15. Brown, Mick. "India 2.0 Part Three". The Telegraph.
16. "Photographing Massacre Survivors as Individuals, not Statistics: Anastasia Taylor-Lind". Nieman. Nieman Foundation.
17. Matthieu, Aikins. "Surge". Wired.
18. Taylor-Lind, Anastasia. "Sharing the Viewfinder: Instagram as a Medium for Documentary Photography". Nieman Reports. Nieman Foundation.
19. "Ordinary people in an extraordinary moment: A TED Fellow shoot portraits of the men + women caught up in revolution in Ukraine". TED Blog. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
20. "Fighters and Mourners of the Ukrainian Revolution". Ted Talks. 9 December 2014.
21. "About Anastasia Taylor-Lind". Nieman Foundation.
22. "#WelcomeToDonetsk: Photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind Presents Her Work at HURI". Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019.
23. "Anastasia Taylor-Lind". Carey Institute for Global Good. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
24. "Maidan, Portraits from the Black Square Review". The Guardian. 20 July 2014.
25. "The Devil's Horsemen". The Devil's Horsemen. 24 September 2018.
26. "First Place". Pictures of the Year International.
27. "Anastasia Taylor Lind, UK". World Photography Organisation.
28. "3rd place, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, UK". World Photography Organisation.
29. "Interviews: Anastasia Taylor-Lind". Canon Inc. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
30. "A closer look at judging the 2016 World Press Photo Contest". Canon Inc. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
31. Sopova, Alisa (16 September 2019). "Where There Are Fish in the Tap Water and Women's Uteruses Fall Out". The New York Times.
32. "The Strange Unreality of Life During Eastern Ukraine's Forgotten War". Time. 5 September 2018.
33. Kole, William J. (30 January 2017). "From Ukraine with love: Postcards pay tribute to war dead". Associated Press.
34. BBC World Service (26 August 2015). "Remembering Ukraine Conflict's Victims". BBC World Service.
35. "Anastasia Taylor Lind: Fotografiska For Life X Time". Fotografiska. Archived from the original on 4 August 2020.
36. "5k from the frontline". Anastasia Taylor-Lind.
37. Naulin, Michaël (6 July 2024). "La Guerre en Ukraine débarque à Verdun" (in French). Le Figaro. p. 34. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
38. "Photographic storytelling with Sebastian Meyer". The Guardian. London. 21 November 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
39. "Top prize for student's war photo". BBC News. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
40. Cheesman, Chris (10 April 2006). "16-year-old among Guardian winners". Amateur Photographer. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
41. "Picture of woman Peshmerga wins Guardian photography prize". Kurdistan Regional Government. 9 April 2006. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
42. solutions, martin weise // absoluto - beautiful web. "Deutsche Bank - ArtMag - 55 - news - Deutsche Bank Awards 2009". db-artmag.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
43. World Press Photo (18 May 2017). "Anastasia Taylor-Lind". YouTube. World Press Photo.
44. "3rd place, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, UK - World Photography Organisation". www.worldphoto.org. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
45. Sony World Photography Awards. "Anastasia Taylor-Lind". World Photography Organisation.
46. TED Blog (31 October 2014). "Ordinary people in an extraordinary moment: A TED Fellow shoot portraits of the men + women caught up in revolution in Ukraine". Ted Blog.
47. Nieman Foundation. "About Anastasia Taylor-Lind". Nieman Foundation.

External links

• Official website
• Anastasia Taylor-Lind at TED