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Antrim Caskey began making pictures in southwest China in 1993.


Caskey has studied photography at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Palm Beach Photographic Center in Florida and the International Center of Photography in New York City.


Antrim lived and worked in India (1997-98) where she freelanced for the Indian Express and the Hindu, two of the largest daily news papers in India. At the Alliance Française in Madras, she presented an exhibition of her street photography, People and Spaces.


Antrim arrived in New York City at the end of 1998. She worked at the New York Times Magazine for several years and then left to go freelance in 2002.


In 2003, Antrim was awarded a Pew International Journalism fellowship to study at Johns Hopkins, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and then to go to Argentina on a six week reporting trip to report on the human costs of Argentina's unprecedented economic collapse of 2002. See the video she produced here.


Around the time of the Republican National Convention converged in Manhattan in the summer of 2004, Antrim found the New York City Independent Media Center. She joined the Photo Team and began regularly contributing both pictures and text to the monthly newspaper the Indypendent.


At the Indypendent, Antrim encountered Maria Gunnoe and with this began work on the story of how the mountaintop removal coal mining is obliterating the oldest mountain range in the nation and slowly killing off the people who have lived on these lands for a dozen decades. Published pieces appeared in the Smithsonian Magazine, the Boston Globe, Orion, Le Point among many others.

In August 2005, Antrim traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan to cover the nation's first Parliamentary elections. In June 2006, Antrim returned to live and work in Kabul for another half year. The majority of the year 2007 and into 2008 have centered on reporting from the coalfields of southern West Virginia.

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