Anna Boyiazis
Women Photograph
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Anna Boyiazis is an American documentary photographer based between Southern California and East Africa. Committed to healing and liberation, her areas of focus include 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 (Australia, Germany, Italy, Spain, USA), is a 2019 Prix Pictet Nominee, and the recipient of the 2021 Leica Woman Foto Project Award, a 2019 Getty Images Reportage Grant, a 2018 Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, the 2018 Peace Image of the Year Award, a 2018 Contemporary African Photography Prize, a 2018 Pictures of the Year International Award, a 2018 Women Photograph + Nikon Grant, a 2018 World Press Photo Foundation Award, and a 2017 UNICEF Photo of the Year Award. Exhibitions of this work include the DYSTURB #WomenMatter campaign against violence toward women (Preus Museum, Norway), History In A Moment (Monroe Gallery, Paris Photo New York), and the 2017 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibition (National Portrait Gallery, London). Anna is a contributing photographer for ESPN, The Guardian, GEO, Médecins Sans Frontières, National Geographic, Stern, 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), the World Press Photo Exhibition (Montréal, Vienna), and the World Press Photo Festival (Amsterdam). Anna earned an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BA from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.
2019 - Prix Pictet, Nominee, 2019 - Getty Images Reportage Grant, 2018 - World Press Photo Award, Recipient, 2018 - ANI-PixTrakk Award Perpignan, Shortlist, 2018 - POYi, Award of Excellence, Recipient, 2018 - Contemporary African Photography Prize, Recipient, 2018 - Women Photograph + Nikon Grant, Recipient, 2018 - Alfred Fried Photography Award, Recipient, 2018 - Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, 2017 - Arles Voies Off Awards, Shortlist, 2017 - Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson HCB Award, Nominee, 2017 - Creative Capacity Fund Award, Recipient, 2017 - UNICEF Photo of the Year, Nominee, 2016 - Visura Photojournalism Grant, Honorable Mention , 2016 - Creative Capacity Fund Award, Recipient, 2016 - NatGeo Elizabeth Krist Visura Instagram Takeover, 2015 - Fondation Rivera-Ortiz Grant, Finalist, 2015 - FotoVisura Grant, Honorable Mention, 2015 - Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson HCB Award, Nominee, 2015 - PDN’s 30, Nominee, 2015 - Photocrati Fund Fellowship, Fourth Place, 2015 - UNICEF Photo of the Year, Nominee, 2014 - Best of ASMP, Recipient, 2014 - Fondation Rivera-Ortiz Grant, Finalist, 2014 - PDN’s 30, Nominee, 2013 - Fondation Rivera-Ortiz Grant, Finalist, 2012 - Center for Cultural Innovation Grant, Finalist, 2012 - Creative Capacity Fund Award, Recipient, 2012 - Eddie Adams Workshop XXV LATimes Award, Recipient, 2012 - Médecins Sans Frontières Prize, Recipient, 2012 - Photocrati Fund Fellowship, Third Place, 2012 - Puffin Foundation Grant, Recipient, 2011 - Creative Capacity Fund Award, Recipient , 2011 - City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowship, Recipient, 2011 - Photocrati Fund Fellowship, Finalist, 2011 - POYi Emerging Vision Incentive, Nominee, 2011 - UNICEF Photo of the Year, Nominee, 2010 - Creative Capacity Fund Award, Recipient, 2010 - PHotoEspaña Descubrimientos PHE, Invitation, 2010 - UNICEF Photo of the Year, Nominee, 2009 - Canon Female Photojournalist Award, Shortlisted, 2009 - CENTER Singular Image Curator’s Choice, 2nd Prize, 2009 - Px3, Photojournalism Feature Story First Place, 2009 - Px3, Photojournalism Category Second Place, 2009 - UNICEF Photo of the Year, Nominee, 2008 - CENTER Singular Image, Second Prize, 2006 - American Academy in Rome, Rome Prize Finalist, 2000 - American Center for Design, ACD 100 Recipient, 2000 - American Institute of Graphic Arts, Recipient, 1998 - American Institute of Graphic Arts, Recipient, 1997 - Communication Arts Award, Recipient, 1997 - Society of Publication Designers Award, Recipient
- Audio capture
- Conflict
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Interview
- Medical
- Military embed
- Portrait
- RISC training
- Wildlife