During his time at the Express-News, he won honors for his work, including awards from the Dallas Press Club, and the National Press Photographers Association. Since his time at the Express-News, Hunter’s work could be seen at exhibits throughout San Ant
“He approached every assignment with an extraordinary passion, searching for the best artistic photo,” said Express-News photograper Bob Owen, a former colleague of Rick Hunter’s. “He lived life with a strong determined passion that could not be missed.”
“She was an encyclopedia of film, culture and writing,” says agent Marek Milewicz, who began working with Turbeville 36 years ago. “She never compromised what she did. She believed in what she did and followed her voice of creativity.”
Bill Eppridge: “I know it was the right thing to do,” he said in that interview. “I think that that kind of a situation has got to be documented, it has to be told, and it has to be told to people who do not understand the horrors that we can face.”
Bill Eppridge, one of the greatest photojournalists of his generation and the photographer who famously captured Robert Kennedy’s assassination in Los Angeles in June 1968, died on October 2, 2013. He was 75.
Former Life magazine photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Bill Eppridge has died. Eppridge, 75, has been in an intensive care unit at the Danbury Hospital for several weeks suffering from a blood infection that was the result of a fall where he injur
“Bill was the first ‘big time’ photographer that I met as a young shooter in Portland, Oregon in 1966,” Kennerly said. “He extended a helping hand and a bushel of inspiration to me, and his kindness shaped the course of my career. He will be missed greatly by all who knew him. I am terribly saddened by this.”
Joan Lois Honkala Gordon of Bowling Green, a former executive director of the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce, who served on the Wood County Committee on Aging and orchestrated projects throughout Wood County, died Monday in Bridge Hospice at Heritage C
In January of this year, Jessica Lum, a fledgling, spirited journalist less than a year out of Berkeley’s Graduate Journalism School, died following a 4-year battle with cancer. She was 25. In spite of her illness and her youth, Lum created some masterful
In January of this year, Jessica Lum, a fledgling, spirited journalist less than a year out of Berkeley’s Graduate Journalism School, died following a 4-year battle with cancer. She was 25. In spite of her illness and her youth, Lum created some masterful pieces of journalism of which veteran newspersons would be proud.
The journalist, Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, had accused local authorities of persecuting and kidnapping Muslims and was shot to death while driving his car.
The journalist, Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, 53, a deputy editor of the independent daily newspaper Novoye Delo, had already survived a January assassination attempt at the same spot just outside the capital, Makhachkala (in Dagestan).
Lauren was an inspiration. She was one of the most courageous artists I’ve had the honor of knowing and her work never disappointed. She was one of the rare breed of photographers who reached deep into their soul to communicate her most personal thoughts.
Sarah Charlesworth, a fine-art photographer, teacher and member of The Pictures Generation, died on June 26 in Falls Village, Connecticut, of a cerebral hemorrhage. She was 66 years old. Charlesworth was born in East Orange, New Jersey, and graduated fr
The gentle images in New Delhi-based photographer Anay Mann’s series, About Neetika, are documents of daily life with his wife and son, Vijit. Living in New Delhi, Mann started the series over 12 years ago when he first met his wife
Bert Stern, the celebrity and fashion photographer best known for the 1962 photo shoot with Marilyn Monroe known as “The Last Sitting,” died at home in New York City on June 25, The New York Times reports. He was 83. Born in New York City in 1929, Stern w
reveals somewhat how his massive camera works and the complicated chemistry that goes on to make the pictures happen. A cool little video that shows off Boogie’s process. The Tom Waits soundtrack and mad scientist vibe fits him too
Robert E. Gilka, a newspaper photographer and editor who was a mentor to legions of photographers and who was the director of photography for National Geographic Magazine for more than 27 years, died today.
The man who was a legend in American photographic circles started his career as a news and sports reporter and general assignment photographer at a paper in Zanesville, OH, after graduating from Marquette University in 1939 with a journalism degree. He met and married his wife Janet at the paper, where she was a reporter in 1941. Gilka served in the Army’s Signal Corps and rose to the rank of Captain.
Michael Hastings, a contributor to Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed, died on Tuesday morning in a car crash in Los Angeles at the unforgivably young age of 33.
In her obituary, photojournalist Abigail Heyman, who died May 28, was remembered for her pioneering work on the changing roles of women. She produced her landmark books Growing Up Female and Butcher, Baker, Cabinetmaker in the 1970s, a time when artists,
Paris Match has lost one of its finest photographers. He had that rare quality of knowing how to do everything: war, politics, the magazine, even celebrities
Carl David Repp, 76, died April 29, 2013 in Chico, CA. An award-winning photojournalist, Repp was a mentor to generations of photojournalism students in the Indiana University School of Journalism at Bloomington.
Daniel Martinez Bazaldua, a photographer with the newspaper Vanguardia, was found dead yesterday in the northern Mexico City of Saltillo, the Associated Press reports. He had been missing since Tuesday, when he left the Vanguardia office in the afternoon.
Lionel “Ray” Fluker, 54, a former freelance photojournalist for the Oakland Tribune, was shot and killed while driving home from an East Oakland gym. A Saturday memorial service has been planned, and the gunman has been arrested.
