Anne Sherwood is a freelance photojournalist based in Bozeman, Mont. Covering stories that range from the civil war in Liberia to the bison cull in Yellowstone National Park, Sherwood has traveled to all 50 states, and more than 50 countries on six continents. Her work regularly appears in such publications as the New York Times, National Geographic Adventure, and Smithsonian.
In 2003, Sherwood was awarded a prestigious Pew Fellowship in International Journalism, sending her on a long-term assignment to South Africa. Some of her other meaningful projects have included photographing the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka, documenting the plight of AIDS orphans in Zambia, capturing the ski industry in Western Ukraine, recording the devastation of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras, and exploring ecotourism in Panama. Though she often documents human suffering around the globe, Sherwood considers herself a chronicler of hope.
A graduate of Princeton University—where she studied with fine art photographer Emmet Gowin and majored in Public and International Affairs—Sherwood began her journalism career at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics. Following graduate school at Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication, she shot more than 1000 assignments as a staff photographer for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, winning numerous National Press Photographer Association accolades, Society of Professional Journalists awards, and a coveted spot in two years of the Communication Arts Photo Annual. She devoted herself fulltime to her freelance career in 2000.
Although she’s never been known to turn down a plane ticket, Sherwood finds as much inspiration in her backyard as she does on the other side of the planet. Some of her favorite experiences while on assignment in the West have been pedaling her way across the big sky state on her bicycle; surviving an encounter with a charging herd of wild bison; and making telemark turns at the state’s only Native American owned ski hill.
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