Marie-Hélène Carleton is a writer, photographer, model, and documentary filmmaker, based out of

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Education

Carleton is an alumna of the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public university, public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolli ...

and of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Relations, where she received an MA degree.

Career

Her writing and photographs have also appeared in the book ''The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad'', published by Abrams in 2004, and her photography has appeared in the book ''Water Culture'', published by Trolley in 2003. Her photographs documenting the

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are included in the collection of the

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''American Hostage''

Carleton is the co-author, with

Micah Garen Micah Garen is an American documentary filmmaker and journalist whose work has focused on conflict zones in the Middle EastMark Thompson, March 26, 2012, Time magazineCall me Eshaan Accessed July 11, 2014, "...Air Force Lieut. Colonel John Darin ...

, of ''American Hostage'', published in October 2005 by

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. The book is a memoir of working in Iraq as a filmmaker and reporter, and Micah’s subsequent kidnapping, and her involvement, with many others, to help bring about his release.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carleton, Marie-Helene Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American memoirists University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies alumni American women photographers American women memoirists 21st-century American women