Aerial shot of the coast of Pelly Island, August 2019.

A Palestinian, born and raised in Jordan, freelance photographer Annie Sakkab is based in Canada and the Middle East. As a visual storyteller and social documentarian, she is drawn to explore the customs, lifestyles and values that characterize her subjects. Annie seeks long-form narrative with a focus on women’s issues and social justice. With her work, she raises questions of identity and awareness of the experiences of exile, uprooting and displacement among marginalized groups. Her long term project, ‘A Familiar Stranger,’ challenges contemporary western views and constructs of Middle Eastern women, and raises larger questions of how we perceive repression and freedom. A participant in the Missouri Photo Workshop in 2014 and Eddie Adams Workshop in 2017, Annie won the News Photographers Association of Canada (NPAC) NPOY Student photographer of The Year Award, CPOY College Photographer of the Year Award: Award of Excellence in Portraiture, and the NPAC 1st Place Feature Photo in 2016 and 2017, amongst other awards. Her work has also been recognized by Ontario Newspaper Awards, Ontario Community Newspapers Association, and Loyalist College faculty for commitment to and proficiency in editorial portraiture, documentary photojournalism and storytelling. Annie worked for various Canadian and International organizations and medias including New York Times, The Globe and Mail, Bloomberg, Die Zeit, NBC News, MONOCLE Magazine and Arab News, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Mercy Corps, Danish Refugee Council (DRC), and is a member of Muse Projects and Women Photograph. She has also completed AKE group Hostile Environment Training in 2017. A participant in the Missouri Photo Workshop in 2014 and Eddie Adams Workshop in 2017, Annie won the News Photographers Association of Canada (NPAC) NPOY Student photographer of The Year Award, CPOY College Photographer of the Year Award: Award of Excellence in Portraiture, and the NPAC 1st Place Feature Photo in 2016 and 2017, amongst other awards. Her work has also been recognized by Ontario Newspaper Awards, Ontario Community Newspapers Association, and Loyalist College faculty for commitment to and proficiency in editorial portraiture, documentary photojournalism and storytelling. Annie worked for various Canadian and International organizations and medias including United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Mercy Corps, Danish Refugee Council (DRC), The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, Bloomberg, Die Zeit, NBC News, MONOCLE Magazine and Arab News, and is a member of Muse Projects and Women Photograph. She has also completed AKE group Hostile Environment Training in 2017.