Holly Pickett

Holly Pickett is an independent visual journalist based in New York City. She relocated to the U.S. in 2017, after almost a decade based first in Cairo and later in Istanbul, where she frequently covered human migration, social justice issues, and the human cost of conflict across the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, and Europe.

Holly seeks to humanize people, situations, and events; her images often focus on daily life and the struggles and aspirations of ordinary people. She received a 2014 travel grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and was a 2018 International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) African Great Lakes Reporting Initiative fellow.

Her work has appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Financial Times, TIME, The New Yorker, Stern, NPR.org, and The New Republic.

Before becoming a freelancer, Holly was a staff photographer at The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane, Wash. From her new base in NYC, she continues to freelance while she earns a dual Master’s degree in journalism and Near Eastern Studies at NYU.

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