National School Photography Awards UK 2016 (Second Place)
Originally from the UK, Anna Betts is a Franco-American written journalist and photojournalist based in Brooklyn, NY. Currently, she is a New York Times Fellow (2023-2024) reporting on the National Desk. Before this, Betts was a News Reporter at BuzzFeed News. In 2022, she received her Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Betts has freelanced her writing and reporting for The New York Times, The Washington Post, ELLE Magazine, The Verge, The Observer, and The Village Voice, among others.
Before Graduate School, Betts attended New York University from 2016 to 2020, where she majored in Photography at the Tisch School of the Arts and minored in Political Science at NYU College of Arts and Sciences. At NYU, Betts was the recipient of the Gordon Parks Foundation Scholarship for her senior year.
Some of her photographic work was displayed at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2017, and her senior thesis on climate activism was exhibited at the 2020 Photoville Festival in New York. While pursuing her undergraduate degree, Betts worked at NBC, Marc Jacobs, various art galleries and photo studios, and had her photography work published by ELLE Magazine, i-D magazine/Vice, Teen Vogue, and BuzzFeed News.
