Email: anna@annacwatts.com
Phone: +1 802 495 8521
Languages: Spanish, English
Instagram: wattsanna_
Currently In: Tuscon, Arizona
Anna Watts is a photographer currently working across the American Southwest. Rooted in a background of long-form storytelling, they approach both breaking news and personal narratives with a lens shaped by empathy, nuance, and trust. Their editorial work spans themes of immigration, climate, politics, and social inequity — often focusing on the intersection of individual lives and broader systemic forces.
In their personal work, Anna turns inward to explore themes of adolescence, grief, family, and memory leaning into ambiguity, narrative fallibility, and emotional distance. These longform projects reflect a quiet, psychological gaze that searches for meaning in our isolation and the silences between.
They are a graduate of the International Center of Photography’s Visual Journalism and Documentary Practice program, an alum of the Eddie Adams Workshop XXXII, and a 2022 participant in The New York Times Portfolio Review. Fluent in Spanish, Anna has also completed trauma-informed reporting and conflict zone training through the Poynter Institute, ICRC, and The New York Times.
Born and raised in rural Vermont, they are most at home in mountains. Please ask them for and send them your best hiking recs.
Phone: +1 802 495 8521
Languages: Spanish, English
Instagram: wattsanna_
Currently In: Tuscon, Arizona
Anna Watts is a photographer currently working across the American Southwest. Rooted in a background of long-form storytelling, they approach both breaking news and personal narratives with a lens shaped by empathy, nuance, and trust. Their editorial work spans themes of immigration, climate, politics, and social inequity — often focusing on the intersection of individual lives and broader systemic forces.
In their personal work, Anna turns inward to explore themes of adolescence, grief, family, and memory leaning into ambiguity, narrative fallibility, and emotional distance. These longform projects reflect a quiet, psychological gaze that searches for meaning in our isolation and the silences between.
They are a graduate of the International Center of Photography’s Visual Journalism and Documentary Practice program, an alum of the Eddie Adams Workshop XXXII, and a 2022 participant in The New York Times Portfolio Review. Fluent in Spanish, Anna has also completed trauma-informed reporting and conflict zone training through the Poynter Institute, ICRC, and The New York Times.
Born and raised in rural Vermont, they are most at home in mountains. Please ask them for and send them your best hiking recs.
Editorial clients:
The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Guardian, ESPN, LA Times, Reuters, Forbes, CNN, Business Insider, DIE ZEIT, Documented New York, GoodSport Magazine, Yankee Magazine, VTDigger, Comvite Magazine
Commercial clients:
Pace Prints, Sonos, Evolve, Hyperice, World Health Organization, Girl Scouts of America, Rockefeller Foundation, Global Citizen, UCLA, New York Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, New York City Health, New York Department of Transportation, Intrahealth International, Vermont Chamber of Commerce, University of Vermont
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The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Guardian, ESPN, LA Times, Reuters, Forbes, CNN, Business Insider, DIE ZEIT, Documented New York, GoodSport Magazine, Yankee Magazine, VTDigger, Comvite Magazine
Commercial clients:
Pace Prints, Sonos, Evolve, Hyperice, World Health Organization, Girl Scouts of America, Rockefeller Foundation, Global Citizen, UCLA, New York Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, New York City Health, New York Department of Transportation, Intrahealth International, Vermont Chamber of Commerce, University of Vermont
