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Although born in the United States, Ryan Anson grew up in Kenya where he began taking pictures of wildlife. While finishing high school in Nairobi, he became acutely aware of the plight of the city's street children, and turned his camera toward people. During his sophomore year at New York State’s Syracuse University, Anson won an Award of Excellence in the Alexia Foundation for World Peace photojournalism competition and received a grant to document changing cultural dynamics among the Maasai people of Kenya. He completed his Photojournalism and International Relations degrees in May 2000 and moved to Manila, Philippines later that year. In 2001, the Southern Philippines Foundation for the Arts, Culture and Ecology (SPACE) gave him a grant to photograph reconstruction and peacebuilding efforts on the war-torn island of Mindanao. This body of work was exhibited at the world's premier photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France in September 2002 and later published in a book entitled "Mindanao on the Mend" (Anvil Inc.).
Since January 2003, he has received editorial assignments from several publications including TIME-Asia, Business Week, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Saturday and Sunday Times Magazine (London), Newsbreak, and You Magazine. Anson has also worked on numerous visual advocacy projects with international and Philippines-based non-government organizations such as Community and Family Services International, Compassion Canada, the International Alliance for Peacebuilding (Interpeace), Shangilia Mtoto wa Afrika, Tambayan-Center for the Care of Abused Children, and the United Nations Development Program.
Anson completed a shorter monograph about Filipina girl gangs called "In the Shadows of Davao" (Tambayan Center) in 2004, and is presently working on a new project about Muslim minority communities in the
Asia-Pacific region. A 2005 fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University-based International Reporting Project enabled him to travel to southern Thailand and continue developing this multi-year documentary.
Anson is represented in the United Kingdom by Network Photographers, a London-based photography agency, and is available for editorial assignments anywhere in the world.
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Ryan Anson
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