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.
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'sSean 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]
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. ISBN978-0-9574272-8-0. 160 pages. Edition of 750 copies. With an interview with Taylor-Lind by Gordon MacDonald.
