Photographer Claire Holt

CLAIRE HOLT is a portrait photographer and photojournalist whose work has been featured in many publications, including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday as well as the Associated Press. She has also taught photography as an adjunct professor at the Columbia School of Journalism. The driving force in Holt’s work is, in the words of artist Alice Neel “to assert the dignity and eternal importance of the human being.”

Her latest fine art project, UNBOUND: Celebrating Women Writers, consists of a diverse spectrum of portraits of over 40 women writers of all genres. Holt’s unique approach engages the photographer and the writer in an interactive collaboration to conceptualize and create each portrait. The resulting images are as much about the play and interaction of the creative process as they are about the writers. Among the participants are Pulitzer Prize winners Margo Jefferson and Stacy Schiff, bestselling authors Jodi Picoult and Meg Wolitzer, renowned poets Marie Howe and Rachel Hadas, and celebrated writers Sigrid Nunez, Dani Shapiro, and Ruth Ozeki.

Holt also works commercially and uses her passion for words, literacy, and the arts by partnering with universities and charitable foundations whose focus is on education and access to the arts.

Holt received a BA from Cornell University and an MS from Columbia University. She lives with her family in New York City.

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