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Will Baxter is a 31-year-old American photographer based in Bangkok. Will studied journalism at the University of Kansas and initially got his start as a photographer freelancing for Reuters in Thailand, Laos and Burma. Over the past six years he has documented a diverse range of stories including the war in Afghanistan, the civil war in Sri Lanka, political upheaval and the cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe, child labor, HIV/AIDS, Chinese Opera, the Cyclone Nargis aftermath and anti-government protests in Burma.
"Sri Lanka: Tigerland" was Will's first long-term project. A 20-image selection of Tigerland was exhibited at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand during La Fete 2008 (the French cultural festival sponsored by Alliance Francaise). In 2009 Will has focused most of his attention on a project to document the war in Afghanistan, which he is currently working to complete and will be shown in several exhibitions.
In 2008 Will's images were selected for Time Magazine's Pictures of the Year, Newsweek's Year in Review Issue, and his body of work "Zimbabwe: Diary of Violence" was chosen to be shown at the 2008 Angkor Photo Festival.
Recently his work has been published by Newsweek, Time, Stern, Der Spiegel, New York Times, Washington Post, Internazionale, Parade, Sunday Times, Telegraph, Medicins sans Frontiers and Bloomberg.
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