About

Matthieu Aikins is a journalist whose feature writing and photography have appeared in such US, Canadian, British and Indian publications as Harper's Magazine, the Globe & Mail, the National Post, the Coast, the Toronto Sun, The Caravan, Progress Magazine, the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, the Kingston Whig-Standard, Bad Idea Magazine, SAIL Magazine, and on CBC's 'The National' and Global TV's 'National News'.

As an international freelance journalist, he has reported from geopolitical hotspots like Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan for Harper's Magazine, the National Post and the Globe & Mail.

This year, for his long-form account of traveling alone through Afghanistan, Matthieu received the Canadian Association of Journalists prize for feature writing, as well as a silver prize for Enterprise Reporting at the Atlantic Journalism Awards.

In 2008, Matthieu was the winner of the CAJ's award in the Community Newspaper category, and the Atlantic Journalism Award for Enterprise Reporting. He was a finalist for the CAJ's Print Feature category, and also received the Dalton Camp Award for essays on journalism.

In his work as a music photographer, he has shot the In the Dead of Winter and Evolve music festivals, and bands Anew Airship, Wintersleep, Slowcoaster, and Do Make Say Think.

Matthieu is currently at a two-year fellowship at New York University doing an MA in Near Eastern Studies. His academic interests include the geopolitics of South and Central Asia, and the future of journalism and new media. On the latter subject, he is fortunate enough to have worked this year with Jay Rosen and the innovative Studio 20 program. He is now based in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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