List of photojournalists
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This is a partial list of photojournalists who have articles in Wikipedia.
- Eddie AdamsEddie Adams (photographer)Eddie Adams was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and his coverage of 13 wars.-Combat photographer:...
- Timothy AllenTimothy AllenTimothy Allen is an English photographer best known for his work with indigenous peoples and isolated communities around the world.- Early life :...
- Stephen AlvarezStephen AlvarezStephen Alvarez is a photojournalist who produces global stories about exploration, culture, religion, and the aftermath of conflict. He has been a National Geographic photographer since 1995...
- Mohamed AminMohamed AminMohamed "Mo" Amin was a Kenyan photojournalist noted for his pictures and videotapes of the Ethiopian famine....
- Pablo BartholomewPablo BartholomewPablo Bartholomew is an award-winning Indian photojournalist.Pablo Bartholomew is an independent photographer based in New Delhi, India...
- Felice BeatoFelice BeatoFelice Beato , also known as Felix Beato, was an Italian–British photographer. He was one of the first people to take photographs in East Asia and one of the first war photographers. He is noted for his genre works, portraits, and views and panoramas of the architecture and landscapes of Asia and...
- Daniel BerehulakDaniel BerehulakDaniel Berehulak is an award winning Australian photographer and photojournalist. Now based in New Delhi, he has recently specialized in reportages from India and Pakistan.-Career:...
- Marcus BleasdaleMarcus BleasdaleMarcus Bleasdale is a photojournalist, born in the UK to an Irish family. He spent over eight years covering the brutal conflict within the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the work was published in his book One Hundred Years of Darkness, recognized in the best photojournalism books...
- Margaret Bourke-WhiteMargaret Bourke-WhiteMargaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet Industry, the first female war correspondent and the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her...
- Mathew BradyMathew BradyMathew B. Brady was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War...
- Esther BubleyEsther BubleyEsther Bubley was an American photographer who specialized in expressive photos of ordinary people in everyday lives.-Biography:...
- Dan BudnikDan BudnikDan Budnik is an American photographer noted for his portraits of artists and photographs of the Civil Rights Movement and Native American life.Born in 1933 in Long Island, New York, Budnik studied at the Art Students League of New York in the early 1950s...
- Robert CapaRobert CapaRobert Capa was a Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War...
- Christopher CapozzielloChristopher CapozzielloChristopher Capozziello is an American photographer. He works as a freelance photojournalist based in Hamden, Connecticut. He focuses on documenting social issues in order to facilitate awareness and conversation about different facets of life...
- Kevin CarterKevin CarterKevin Carter was an award-winning South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club.-Early life:...
- Henri Cartier-BressonHenri Cartier-BressonHenri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography...
- Marion CarpenterMarion CarpenterMarion A. Carpenter, also known as Marion Anderson , was the first woman national press photographer to cover Washington, D.C. and the White House, and to travel with a US President. She broke the gender role stereotype in the 1940s but left Washington in 1949 after her second marriage.After...
- Martha CooperMartha CooperMartha Cooper is an American photojournalist born in the 1940s in Baltimore, Maryland where she picked up photography at the age of three. She graduated from high school at the age of 16, earned an art degree at age 19 from Grinnell College...
- Joseph CostaJoseph Costa (photographer)Joseph Costa was an American newspaper photographer and founder of the National Press Photographers Association....
- Manoocher DeghatiManoocher DeghatiManoocher Deghati is an Iranian-French photojournalist.-Documenting the Iranian Revolution:In the summer of 1978, Manoocher Deghati, educated as a filmmaker, returned to Iran after three years of studies at the Rome school of cinema just as the first major demonstrations against the regime of the...
- Lucas DolegaLucas DolegaLucas Dolega, whose birth name was Loucas von Zabiensky-Mebrouk and who was also called Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, was a French/German photojournalist who was reportedly killed by Tunisian police while he was photographing a protest in Tunis...
- Sergio DorantesSergio DorantesSergio Dorantes Zurita is a Mexican photojournalist, currently jailed in Mexico City for the murder of his wife, Alejandra Dehessa in 2003. The case has been highly controversial, not least because of the lack of forensic evidence and the only witness who places Dorantes at the scene of the crime...
- Clifton C. EdomClifton C. EdomClifton Cedric "Cliff" Edom , often credited as the "Father of Photojournalism", was prolific in the development of photojournalism education.-Biography:...
- Walker EvansWalker EvansWalker Evans was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera...
- Roger FentonRoger FentonRoger Fenton was a pioneering British photographer, one of the first war photographers.-Early life:Roger Fenton was born in Crimble Hall, Heap, Bury, Lancashire, 28 March 1819. His grandfather was a wealthy cotton manufacturer and banker, his father a banker and Member of Parliament...
- Jim FenwickJim FenwickJim Fenwick is a former Australian photojournalist most well known for being a Walkley Award recipient and former chief photographer for The Courier Mail.-Photographic career:...
- Sean FlynnSean FlynnSean Leslie Flynn was an American actor and freelance photojournalist best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War. He started a news service in Saigon with John Steinbeck IV, son of the American author.Flynn was the only child of the marriage of Errol Flynn and Lili Damita...
- Shiho FukadaShiho Fukadais a Japanese photojournalist currently working out of Beijing, China. Her clientele consists of The New York Times, MSNBC, Le Monde, the Chicago Tribune and the New York magazine, among others. She won the Grand Prize in Editor and Publisher Magazine’s Ninth Annual Photos of the Year contest in 2008...
- Kevin FrayerKevin FrayerKevin Frayer is a Canadian photojournalist noted for his wartime work in the Middle East including the Gaza Strip and Iraq, and Afghanistan. Starting his career in 1991 as a photographer for the Canadian Press, his first assignments were in Yugoslavia...
- Cédric GerbehayeCédric GerbehayeCédric Gerbehaye is a Belgian journalist and photographer who has specialized in the Middle East and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.-Career:...
- Jan GrarupJan GrarupJan Grarup is a Danish photojournalist who has worked both as a staff photographer and as a freelance, specializing in war and conflict photography. He has won many prizes including the World Press Photo award for his coverage of the war in Kosovo....
- Lauren GreenfieldLauren GreenfieldLauren Greenfield is an American artist, documentary photographer, and documentary filmmaker. She has published three monographs of her photographic work, directed four documentary films, exhibited her photographic prints in museums throughout the world, and had her work published in a variety of...
- Carol GuzyCarol GuzyCarol Guzy is a four-time Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post photographer.-Life and career:Guzy grew up in a working-class family in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania....
- John HarringtonJohn Harrington (photographer, author)John Harrington is an American photographer and author. Harrington wrote the manual Best Business Practices for Photographers, and provided the photography for three books by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian: Meet Naiche, Meet Mindy, and Meet Lydia.Harrington...
- Graeme JenningsGraeme Jennings (photojournalist)Graeme Jennings is a New Zealand, international and freelance photojournalist.-Early life:Jennings spent his childhood in Auckland where he was educated at St Peter's College . At St Peter's, he was a keen painter but "I wasn't a good painter, I didn't enjoy physics and so opted to do photography...
- Chris JohnsChris Johns (photographer)Chris Johns is a prize-winning photographer who spent many years in Africa for National Geographic Magazine and is the first photographer ever to be named Editor-in-Chief of the publication, the position he has held since 2005. Under Johns' leadership, National Geographic received the General...
- Ed KashiEd KashiEd Kashi is an American photojournalist and member of VII Photo based in the Greater New York area. Kashi's award-winning work spans from high-end print photojournalism to experimental film...
- André KertészAndré KertészAndré Kertész , born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition...
- Russell KlikaRussell KlikaRussell Lee Klika is an award-winning newspaper and U.S. military combat photographer, photojournalist and trainer who grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, 100 miles north of Milwaukee.-Photo career:...
- Gary KnightGary KnightGary Knight was born in 1964 in Oakham, England and was raised in the village of Knowle in the West Midlands. He attended Arden School and Solihull Sixth Form College. He left higher education mid way through his first year and started to travel in Europe and the Middle East...
- Yuri KozyrevYuri KozyrevYuri Kozyrev, , is a Russian photographer who has been a professional photojournalist since 1990. For an extended period, he worked in Baghdad for Time. He is now based in Moscow.-Career:...
- Shisei KuwabaraShisei Kuwabarais a photojournalist best known for his depiction of the effects of mercury poisoning on people in and near Minamata over a period of some forty years....
- Vincent Laforet
- Alex LevacAlex LevacAlex Levac is an Israeli photojournalist and street photographer. He won the Israel Prize for photography in 2005.-Biography:Alex Levac was born in Tel Aviv in 1944...
- Danny Lyon
- Greg MarinovichGreg MarinovichGreg Sebastian Marinovich is an award-winning South African photojournalist, film maker, photo editor, and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He co-authored the book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War, which details South Africa's transition to democracy. In the 1990s, Marinovich worked as...
- Don McCullinDon McCullinDonald McCullin, FRPS CBE is an internationally known British photojournalist, particularly recognized for his war photography and images of urban strife...
- Joseph McKeownJoseph McKeownJoseph McKeown was a British photojournalist whose work documented the changes in Great Britain following the Second World War as well as embracing celebrity and fashion photography.-Early life:...
- Spider MartinSpider MartinJames "Spider" Martin was an American photographer known for his work documenting the American Civil Rights Movement....
- Enrico MartinoEnrico MartinoEnrico Martino is an Italian photojournalist.-Biography:Turin-born, freelance photojournalist from 1971, covered Sahel famine in 1984, Yom Kippur War, 1991 Gulf War. first elections in German Democratic Republic, Hungary and Romania after Berlin Wall fall...
- Susan MeiselasSusan MeiselasSusan Meiselas is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and a full member since 1980. Her works have been published in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Times, Time, Geo and Paris Match...
- Hansel MiethHansel MiethHansel Mieth was a German-born photojournalist who worked on the staff of LIFE Magazine. She was best known for her social commentary photography which recorded the lives of working class Americans in the 1930s and 1940s....
- Lee MillerLee MillerElizabeth 'Lee' Miller, Lady Penrose was an American photographer. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1907, she was a successful fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris where she became an established fashion and fine art photographer...
- Zoriah Miller
- James NachtweyJames NachtweyJames Nachtwey is an American photojournalist and war photographer.He grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied Art History and Political Science ....
- Kenji NagaiKenji Nagaiwas a Japanese photojournalist who took many assignments to conflict zones and dangerous areas around the world. He was shot dead in Burma during the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests....
- Ken OosterbroekKen OosterbroekKen Oosterbroek , was a South African photojournalist and member of The Bang-Bang Club. He worked for The Star in Johannesburg, which was South Africa's biggest daily broadsheet...
- Tim Page
- Gordon ParksGordon ParksGordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director...
- Lucian PerkinsLucian PerkinsLucian Perkins is an award-winning American photojournalist, who is best known for covering a number of controversial conflicts with profound compassion for his photograph's subjects, including the war in Afghanistan, Kosovo and the 1991 Persian Gulf War...
- Dith PranDith PranDith Pran was a Cambodian photojournalist best known as a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian Genocide. He was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields . He was portrayed in the movie by first-time actor Haing S. Ngor , who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor...
- Altaf QadriAltaf QadriAltaf Qadri, born in Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir, India, is an outstanding photojournalist of his generation. Altaf studied science at Kashmir University and began his working life as a computer engineer before he took photography as a profession...
- Ryan Spencer ReedRyan Spencer ReedRyan Spencer Reed is an American social documentary photographer. He has worked in central and east Africa in the capacity of a photojournalist covering the Sudanese Diaspora since 2002. After returning from covering the War in Darfur, in late summer 2004, he and his work have moved about North...
- RezaReza DeghatiReza Deghati, born 1952 in Tabriz, Iran is an Iranian-French photojournalist, who works under the name Reza .-Biography:Reza has covered much of the globe for National Geographic Magazine. Several films about Reza's work have been produced by National Geographic Television, most notably Frontline...
- Robert RigerRobert RigerRobert Riger was a celebrated sports illustrator, photographer, award-winning television director, and cinematographer....
- Manuel Rivera-OrtizManuel Rivera-OrtizManuel Rivera-Ortiz is an American documentary photographer of Puerto Rican descent, the author of several photographic collections and the recipient of a number of awards. He is best known for his documentary photographs of people's living conditions in less developed countries...
- James RobertsonJames Robertson (photographer)James Robertson was an English photographer and gem and coin engraver who worked in the Mediterranean region, the Crimea and possibly India. He was one of the first war photographers....
- Ruth RobertsonRuth RobertsonRuth Agnes McCall Robertson Marietta was an American photojournalist known most for photographing Angel Falls in Venezuela and surveying them to establish them as the tallest waterfalls in the world.-Associations:...
- Didier RuefDidier RuefDidier Ruef is a Swiss documentary photographer best known for his portrayal of Man & Waste, Africa and Switzerland.-Life and career:Didier Ruef was born in Geneva, Switzerland on July 15, 1961 and has dual nationality, Swiss and Italian...
- Sebastião SalgadoSebastião SalgadoSebastião Salgado is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.-Biography:Salgado was born on February 8, 1944 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in...
- João Silva
- Ignác ŠechtlIgnác ŠechtlIgnác Šechtl , also known as Ignace Schächtl or Hynek Šechtl, was a pioneer of Czech photography and cinematography...
- Josef Jindřich ŠechtlJosef Jindrich ŠechtlJosef Jindřich Šechtl was a Czech photographer who specialized in photojournalism and portrait photography...
- Ragnar Th. SigurdssonRagnar Th. SigurdssonRagnar Th. Sigurdsson, , is a photographer specializing in landscapes portraying the natural beauty of Iceland, Greenland and the Arctic. In March 2010, he gained international recognition with his shots of the erupting volcano Eyjafjallajökull....
- W. Eugene SmithW. Eugene SmithWilliam Eugene Smith was an American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid World War II photographs.- Life and work :...
- Chris Steele-PerkinsChris Steele-PerkinsChristopher Horace Steele-Perkins is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos, best known for his depiction of Africa, Afghanistan, England, and Japan.-Life and career:...
- Dana StoneDana StoneDana Stone was a U.S. photo-journalist best known for his work for CBS during the Vietnam War....
- David C. TurnleyDavid C. TurnleyDavid C. Turnley is an American photographer. He won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for photography for images of the political uprisings in China and Eastern Europe, the World Press Photo Picture of the Year in 1988 for a photo taken in Leninakan after the devastating Armenian earthquake and again in...
- Peter TurnleyPeter TurnleyPeter Turnley is a photojournalist known for documenting the human condition and current events. Over the past two decades, he has traveled to eighty-five countries and covered nearly every major news event of international significance. His photographs have been featured on the cover of Newsweek...
- Julia TutwilerJulia TutwilerJulia Strudwick Tutwiler was an advocate for education and prison reform in Alabama. Graduating in the first class of Vassar College, she served as co-principal of the Livingston Female Academy, and then the first woman president of Livingston Normal College .-Early life and education:Tutwiler...
- Homai VyarawallaHomai VyarawallaHomai Vyarawalla , commonly known by her pseudonym "Dalda 13," is India's first woman photojournalist. First active in the late 1930s, she retired in the early 1970s. In 2011, she was chosen for the second highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan by Govt...
- James WardellJames WardellJames Wardell is an English photojournalist, war photographer and glamour photographer.-Photography:James Wardell attended University College, Durham University and after graduating in Geography moved from his home town of Sutton Coldfield to start work as an advertising executive in 2001 at the...
- Jeff WidenerJeff WidenerJeff Widener is an American photographer, best known for his image of the Tank Man confronting a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square during the 1989 Beijing riots which made him a nominated finalist for the 1990 Pulitzer...