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Bryan Denton Awarded the 2016 Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award | American Photo

Tue, 19 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Bryan Denton Awarded the 2016 Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award

Photojournalist calls the award a “bittersweet motivation to keep pushing my work forward”

Bryan Denton Wins Getty Images Chris Hondros Fund Award

Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Bryan Denton Wins Getty Images Chris Hondros Fund Award

American photojournalist Bryan Denton has won the fifth annual $20,000 Getty Images Chris Hondros Fund Award.

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/04/bryan-denton-wins-fifth-annual-getty-images-chris-hondros-fund-award.html

“I was lucky enough to have been friends with Chris, which makes this accolade a bittersweet motivation to keep pushing my work forward, and to do so with the kindness, grace and spirit that Chris embodied both in his work and in life,” Denton said in a prepared statement.

Motivated by the Spirit of Chris Hondros - The New York Times

Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Motivated by the Spirit of Chris Hondros

Covering the chaos of the Libyan civil war in 2011 transformed Bryan Denton. He began the war as a promising 27-year-old photojournalist and provided some of the most vivid coverage of the conflict for The New York Times. But it’s not his personal successes that stick with Mr. Denton — it’s the victims he photographed, and the deaths of several colleagues, especially his friend Chris Hondros.

How Times Have Changed: Photojournalism and the Middle East - Interview with Bryan Denton | LensCulture

Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

How Times Have Changed: Photojournalism and the Middle East - Interview with Bryan Denton | LensCulture

Touching on a missing generation of mid-career journalists, new standards of safety and liability, and the increasing importance of serial storytelling, a veteran photojournalist offers wisdom and insight in this wide-ranging interview

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/blink-network-how-times-have-changed-photojournalism-and-the-middle-east

Freelance photographer Bryan Denton has spent most of his career photographing news in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Now a mid-career photojournalist, he is one of the few who makes a living on assignments. Blink’s Laurence Cornet chats with him about the evolution of journalism in the region, the current challenges for young photographers on the field and his future plans

War Photographers Need Other Older, Wiser War Photographers — Vantage — Medium

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

War Photographers Need Other Older, Wiser War Photographers

Bryan Denton has been making conflict images for a decade. He’s still alive. That’s down, in part, to the advice of experienced…

via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/war-photographers-need-other-older-wiser-war-photographers-487a83e9f776#.4tmb9p4dr

Bryan Denton has been making conflict images for a decade. He is still alive. Thats down to some luck and a lot of good advice from experienced freelancers. But the industry is changing and so are the chances for young shooters.

Striking Oil in a Dakota Boomtown - NYTimes.com

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Striking Oil in a Dakota Boomtown

Wanting to go beyond his usual Middle East haunts, Bryan Denton went looking for someplace exotic for his latest photo essay.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/striking-oil-in-a-dakota-boomtown/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

when Bryan Denton, a native Californian, thought about getting outside his comfort zone for a forthcoming photo essay, he settled on a truly exotic locale.

North Dakota.

'Tomorrow, Tripoli'

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

‘Tomorrow, Tripoli’

Although Bryan Denton has been on assignment in Libya for six months, he had yet to see Tripoli until Sunday night. Mr. Denton wasn’t the only one surprised by the rebels’ speedy advance.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/tomorrow-tripoli/

On Sunday night, the freelance photographer Bryan Denton, on assignment for The New York Times in Libya, entered the heart of Tripoli alongside advancing rebel fighters. For Mr. Denton, who has been covering the war from the perspective of the rebel fighters for six months, the experience felt almost mythical.

Bryan Denton Has Distinguished Himself in Libya, C. J. Chivers Reports. And Denton Shares His Story With Lens. - NYTimes.com

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

A Towering Perspective on Libya

Bryan Denton has distinguished himself in Libya, C. J. Chivers reports. And Mr. Denton shares that story in his own words.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/a-towering-perspective-on-libya/

Bryan’s height — somewhere north of 6 feet 6 inches, closer to 7 feet with helmet and boots — is both a perennial joke and a source of wonder among those who cover war and know him. Why would anyone so damn tall take on a line of work where, on many days, you want to be small? Let’s be clear. Bryan is a big target. Correction: he is a very big target. He looks like a walking sheet of plywood out there.