Annie Griffiths Belt
Photographer (top)
Belt's portrait of a Pakistani girl (bottom)
Photographs by Linda Johansson (top); Annie Griffiths Belt (bottom)

Over her 25-year National Geographic career, Annie Griffiths Belt has worked on every continent except Antarctica. One of the first female staff photographers hired at National Geographic, her assignments have included stories about Jerusalem, the spectacular ancient ruins of Petra in Jordan, England's Lake District, Lawrence of Arabia, and the Badlands region of South Dakota.

When her children (daughter Lily and son Charlie) were born, she took them right along on her assignments.What some might see as an obstacle, Belt turned into an opportunity. “In some of these cultures, I’m a bizarre character— a woman from another world, traveling without a chaperone,” she explains. “The fact that I’m a mother provides common ground. I pull out pictures of my children, and that helps get me out of the realm of being just a foreigner.”

In her new National Geographic book, A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel, Belt shares the secrets of her peripatetic life, and offers a loving compendium of the wisdom she has gained on her journey. Chronicling three decades of international travel, a movable family, and the art she created along the way, Belt relates intimate moments and touching stories, along with her portfolio of emotionally rich photographs.

Celebrate Mother’s Day with this master photographer as she reveals her experiences in Africa, among the women of the Arab world, and other places where, in true National Geographic style, her camera has been her passport.

Hear Annie Griffiths Belt narrate a slide show of her work.

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S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium Benaroya Hall 200 University Street Seattle, WA

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