Anthony Ham

Biography

Anthony Ham is a Madrid-based freelance writer and photographer with a special interest in the Sahara and Sahel. His earlier report from Mali appeared in the Winter 2010 issue of VQR, and his journey to Araouane in search of evidence of al Qaeda in West Africa appeared in the Summer 2010 issue.

See Work

ESSAYS / Winter 2012

The Road to Revolution

By Anthony Ham

No one—neither Libyans nor those of who claimed to know Libya well—saw the second revolution coming. For Libyans these daily conversations were a means of moral survival; they never truly believed that the changes of which they dreamt would...

Summer 2010

Island in the Sand

By Anthony Ham
REPORTING / Winter 2010

The Lost Herd

By Anthony Ham ,  Photography by Carlton Ward, Jr.

Elephants don’t belong here. But that doesn’t deter Amadou, a local guide who assures me that this, the barren badlands of north-central Mali, is prime elephant country. He saw them, the last remaining elephants along the Sahara’s southern...