Swerve Welcomes Abbie Trayler-Smith

Swerve is pleased to announce we now represent acclaimed British documentary and portrait photographer Abbie Trayler-Smith. Abbie’s work draws primarily on an emotional response, capturing people’s reactions and responses to contemporary events and social issues. Her work is exquisitely personal and naturally observed. She engages with her subjects, revealing the everyday, the ordinary, the anguish, the humility and the extraordinary courage of those behind her lens.

Born in Wales, Abbie has travelled extensively for her work. During her eight years as a photographer with The Daily Telegraph, she covered important world events such as the conflicts in Iraq and Darfur, and the Asian tsunami. Her more recent trips and covered the environmental activism in the Antarctic and the Indian Ocean with Greenpeace, as well as chronicling national celebrations such as the Platinum Jubilee, Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and most recently the Coronation of King Charles III.

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Abbie Trayler-Smith Obesity stories from Abbie Trayler-Smith.

Abbie Trayler-Smith Displaced people arrive at Hasan Sham Camp between Erbil and Mosul. Over 500 arrived yesterday and more are being bussed in from areas surrounding Mosul.

Abbie Trayler-Smith Hana, 18, an Oxfam Community Health Promoters in Owsijah, Iraq, 8th November 2016.

Abbie Trayler-Smith Mason, age 11, at his home in Sheffield, UK.

Abbie Trayler-Smith Deana hangs out outside her house after school in Port Talbot, Wales. Deena is now 12 and has been overweight since she was little. She tells me she feels more comfortable than she used to as there are more overweight kids in her class than there used to be.from the series, The Big O, an intimate portrait of the children behind the obesity statistics in Britain.

Abbie Trayler-Smith Chelsea takes a walk in the countryside near her home in Sheffield.

Abbie Trayler-Smith Crowds gather in Windsor to see the Royal Wedding between Prince Harry and Megan Markle in Windsor, UK, this afternoon 19th May, 2018. Sandra Shaw 56, Lorraine Raines 51 and Trish Hodkinson 57 from Merseyside, North Englan travelled down for todays event,

Abbie Trayler-Smith Aminata Abdourahmane, (22) and her baby boy Moussa (15months) at Attri in Agadez Region, Niger, March 2015.
Attri is a regional health centre, receiving patients with a range of complaints including malnutrition, as well as having a very basic labour unit. Attri itself is a set of small rural villages comprising 512 families.

Abbie Trayler-Smith Sadaf Haruzel, 17, a member of the Girls's Boxing TEam in Kabul, photographed at The National Stadium.
Olympic Dreams: Fighting for Peace
Boxing is making a comeback in Afghanistan after it was banned by the Taliban Regime. For the first time in the history of Afghanistan the country also now has an Afghan Amateur Women’s Boxing Association, financed and established by CPAU under the auspices of The Afghan Olympic Federation.Afghanistan’s first female boxing team has fought hard to be accepted in Afghan society. A group of teenage girls, aged 14 to 20, train 3 times a week at the dingy National Stadium in Kabul, once used for Taliban executions. And now, with Women’s Boxing tipped to become an Olympic sport, the girls are fighting for their chance to travel to the UK as part of Afghanistan’s first female Olympic boxing team for London 2012.
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Shabnam, 17, is one of three sisters in the team. She has been boxing since she was 11 and has already taken part in an international competition in Vietnam. She says: “I want to win a medal for myself and for my country. Afghanistan has been through a lot during my lifetime. I want to make my country proud. Why shouldn’t girls do it? In Afghanistan now we can do anything”Saber Sharifi a fit 50-year-old who became Afghanistan’s boxing star in the 1980s by winning a silver medal at the 1982 Asia Games in Delhi, has become a champion of the programme and its coach.
“Afghan women are brave,” he said. “We want our girls to do sports. Some people say it is very dangerous for girls to do boxing. Others say Afghanistan is not ready for this. These girls are proving those people wrong.”

Abbie Trayler-Smith Harifa Moussa, 17 from Luga village in Guerra, Chad. Women from the Guerra region of Chad all have one story, how will I feed my family today? They represent hundreds of thousands of women accross the sahel who because continued drought, price rises and food insecurity are resorting to desparate measures to feed their families: picking leaves off trees, diging up anthills for grains, and when all else fails boiling stones in water to make their children believe that dinner is coming. Almost 40 percent of the population in Chad is facing food insecurity and almost 18 million people in the Sahel region are affected.