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

“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 Angeles on Saturday when a police officer ordered her to move.

June 2, 2020
How a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer captured emotional, physical wounds from gang violence

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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.

I talked with Davidson via email about her reporting process, why she chose the photos she did, and what advice she has for other journalists covering gang violence. You can read our Q&A, which has been edited for clarity, below.

January 10, 2020
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 failed as a journalist’

November 18, 2019
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 Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro sparked outrage on social media.

August 15, 2019
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 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowships provide grants of undisclosed amounts to support projects by artists, scholars, scientists and writers. The foundation selected 168 fellows this year from a pool of more than 3,000 applicants. This year’s fellows in photography are:

April 11, 2019
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 of the Year premier category. James Oatway of The Sunday Times in South Africa, and Lacy Atkins of The San Francisco Chronicle were recognized with second and third place awards.

February 11, 2014
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 Best of Photojournalism contest, for his work in Haiti and Afghanistan.

A series on the victims of gang violence by Barbara Davidson of The Los Angeles Times was named the best published picture story (large markets) by the photographers association.

June 10, 2011
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 a relative’s funeral. She would assure them then that they could count on her to tell their story. She would say, “A lot of the media is going to disappear in three days, but I’m going to be the one you’re going to see again and again and again.”

April 19, 2011
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 acre tract of tribal land in northeastern Arizona

Link: Barbara Davidson Wins Cliff Edom’s “New America Award”

March 25, 2010
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.

September 9, 2009