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

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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

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, 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