Tag: Barbara Davidson

  • Police Target Journalists as Trump Blames ‘Lamestream Media’ for Protests – The New York Times

    Police Target Journalists as Trump Blames ‘Lamestream Media’ for Protests – The New York Times

    Police Target Journalists as Trump Blames ‘Lamestream Media’ for Protests “I’ve really never seen anything like this”: Reporters and news photographers describe being roughed up, arrested and shot with projectiles while covering demonstrations across the country. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/business/media/reporters-protests-george-floyd.html Barbara Davidson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, was covering a protest near the Grove shopping mall in Los…

  • How a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer captured emotional, physical wounds from gang violence

    Link: The most authentic photographs tell untold stories, and they capture intimacy, depth and compassion. These are just a few of the words that come to mind when I think of Barbara Davidson‘s “Caught in the Crossfire” project, which led to the Los Angeles Times photographer to win this year’s Pulitzer Prize in feature photography.…

  • In Canadian photographer Barbara Davidson’s visions of war and hardship, humanity stays in the frame – The Globe and Mail

    In Canadian photographer Barbara Davidson’s visions of war and hardship, humanity stays in the frame – The Globe and Mail

    In Canadian photographer Barbara Davidson’s visions of war and hardship, humanity stays in the frame ‘If the reader has no empathy for the people I’m documenting, then I feel I’ve failed as a journalist’ via The Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-in-canadian-photographer-barbara-davidsons-visions-of-war-and/ ‘If the reader has no empathy for the people I’m documenting, then I feel I’ve…

  • Canon Drops Ambassador Barbara Davidson for ‘Racist’ Tweet

    Canon Drops Ambassador Barbara Davidson for ‘Racist’ Tweet

    Canon Drops Ambassador Barbara Davidson for ‘Racist’ Tweet Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-winning photojournalist Barbara Davidson has been booted from the Canon Explorers of Light program after an insensitive tweet via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2019/08/14/canon-drops-ambassador-barbara-davidson-for-racist-tweet/ Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-winning photojournalist Barbara Davidson has been booted from the Canon Explorers of Light program after an insensitive tweet aimed at…

  • 2019 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to 12 Photographers | PDNPulse

    2019 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to 12 Photographers | PDNPulse Catherine Opie, Ron Jude, Jennifer Garza-Cuen and Barbara Davidson are among the 12 photographers named 2019 Guggenheim Fellows via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/04/2019-guggenheim-fellowships-photographers.html Catherine Opie, Ron Jude, Jennifer Garza-Cuen and Barbara Davidson are among the 12 photographers named 2019 Guggenheim Fellows, according to an announcement from the John Simon…

  • Barbara Davidson Named POYi Newspaper Photographer of The Year

    Barbara Davidson Named POYi Newspaper Photographer of The Year Barbara Davidson, a staff photojournalist for the Los Angeles Times, achieved premier honors as the 2013 Newspaper Photographer of the Year in the 71st annual Pictures of the Year International (POYi) competition. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/barbara-davidson-named-poyi-newspaper-photographer-year Two additional newspaper photojournalists received portfolio honors in the Newspaper Photographer…

  • Winter and Davidson Are Doubly Honored

    Winter and Davidson Are Doubly Honored

    Winter and Davidson Are Doubly Honored Damon Winter of The New York Times and Barbara Davidson of The Los Angeles Times are among those honored by the National Press Phoographers Association. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/winter-and-davidson-are-doubly-honored/ On Thursday, Damon Winter of The New York Times was named photojournalist of the year (large markets) in the association’s…

  • Pulitzers Reward Tenacious Photographers

    Pulitzers Reward Tenacious Photographers

    Pulitzers Reward Tenacious Photographers Photographers at The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times have won Pulitzers this year. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/pulitzers-reward-tenacious-photographers/ Asked how she had earned the trust of families who were so vulnerable, Barbara Davidson noted that she was often with him from almost the beginning of their ordeal; for instance, before…

  • Barbara Davidson Wins Cliff Edom's "New America Award"

    Her essay, which appeared in the Los Angeles Times in November as a front-page story that continued to a double-truck spread inside the paper and appeared on the paper’s Web site as both a multimedia feature and a flat gallery, documented the lives of more than 8,000 Navajo Indians who live on a 1.6 million…

  • Visa Pour l’Image 2009 Winners Announced – PDN

    Visa Pour l’Image 2009 Winners Announced – PDN: Los Angeles Times photographer Barbara Davidson was recognized at the 2009 Visa Pour l’Image festival with a top award for her coverage of the 2008 Chinese earthquake, while photographers who covered conflicts in Georgia and Afghanistan also took home honors.