A largely self taught photographer, Zann Huizhen Huang went on a backpacking trip around Asia in December 2004 and began her first serious foray into photojournalism in January 2005, after the tsunami. Since then she has been trying to build a portfolio on the road. In less than a year, she joined World Picture News in December 2005. Zann’s works have been published in TIME magazine, Choc, IKONO, Le Monde, L’expresso , Geo Italia, AOL, United Nations (UNFPA) and Asian Geographic. Her works have also been exhibited in Noorderlicht 2006: Another Asia. In Sept 2007, her works on the ‘Cambodian Glue Kids’ were selected as the top 5 finalists by Care International Humanitaire Award 2007 and was on exhibition in Visa Pour L’image. As an emerging photographer, Zann has also received three Honourable Mentions for the UNICEF photographer of the Year 2006, the International Photographer of the Year Award 2006 and the PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris 2007 for her work on ‘Ayatollah Khomeini and his legacy’ and ‘Cambodian Glue Kids’. She also clinched the Humanity Photo Awards UNESCO 2006 (Documentary category). Zann contributes to the United Nations on humanitarian and environmental issues and is based in the Middle East.
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Iraq: Qandil Burning - Bombing along the Iran-Iraq border
By Zann Huang
Posted in all, news & global, slides on 6 February 2011
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The PJAK, or the (Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistane) is a militant Kurdish nationalist group based in northern Iraq that has been carrying out attacks against Iranian forces in the Kurdistan Province of Iran.
In retaliation, Iranian bombings intensified in late May 2010 and have led to the displacement of more than 500 Kurdish families, wounded [...]

Lebanon: Cry Palestine
By Zann Huang
Posted in all, features, greater middle east, slides on 27 June 2010
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In Lebanon, a small but densely populated country, there are 12 official camps with about 230,000 refugees. Compared with their counterparts in neighboring Syria and Jordan, Palestinians in Lebanon has the highest percentage of refugees who are living in abject poverty and who are registered with UNRWA’s “special hardship” program.
Shatila camp, located in Beirut’s “belt [...]

Cambodia: Kids Sniffing Glue
By Zann Huang
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific on 7 February 2009
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Cambodia is still recovering from decades of a civil war which ended in 1998. Poverty is wide-spread and is the root cause of many social problems. Homeless children living on the streets of Siem Reap, Cambodia resort to solvent abuse to forget the pain of hunger and to escape from the harsh reality of street [...]