Photojournalist Holly Pickett grew up in Butte, Montana. She earned degrees in journalism and history from the University of Montana in Missoula.

Holly was a staff photographer at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., from 2002 - 2007. She participated in the Missouri Photo Workshop in 2003. In early 2008 she moved to Cairo, Egypt, to pursue a freelance career. She was a 2008 Arthur F. Burns Fellow at the Sueddeutsche Zeitung in Munich, Germany.

Holly has worked in Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Tunisia, Jordan, Oman, Gaza, Morocco, all over Egypt, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, and Burkina Faso.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Stern, NPR.org, Elle, Wall Street Journal, The Times (London), Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Miami Herald, The National (Abu Dhabi), USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, The Australian, and Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

Exhibitions:

• Freedom to Create commended artist, traveling group exhibit. Ana Tazrev Gallery New York, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke Mumbai, National Gallery Sarajevo, 2011
• Conflict Zone, a benefit for severely wounded veterans and their families, traveling group exhibit. Expo 72 Gallery Chicago, National Press Club Washington D.C., Poynter Institute St. Petersburg FL, 2011
• Youth Image Project, helping at-risk teens through documentary photography classes, group exhibit. Walking Man Gallery, Whitefish Mont., 2011
• Women in Photojournalism national juried group exhibit. 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007

Holly is currently in Istanbul, Turkey.