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Born in the United States in 1956. He was a contract photographer for Time from 1991 to 2009, and has published several books, including 'Beyond the Fall', a 10-year photography project portraying the transition of the Eastern bloc starting from the fall of the Berlin wall,and //Fear This//, about the war of images and slogans being played out at home while America is at war in Iraq.His work has appeared in //National Geographic magazine//, Paris Match, Stern, The New York Times Magazine, the London Sunday Times Magazine, LIFE, and many publications throughout the world. In 2009 he co-founded the non-profit collective "Facing Change: Documenting America", with a group of social minded photographers and writers to document the issues facing the United States during a time of economic uncertainty. He is currently based in New York.

He won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1984 for his photographs of the famine in Ethiopia, the World Press Photo of the Year in 1987, for a photo taken during a demonstration in South Korea, the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1995 for his photos from Chechnya, and a second World Press Photo of the Year in 2008, for a photograph taken in Cleveland, Ohio depicting an officer securing a home under foreclosure at gun-point. In 2008, he was given the Infinity Award for Photojournalism by the International Center of Photography. In 2010 he was awarded an Emmy for a web-doc based on his images taken during the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.
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He has dedicated his career to documenting the effects of international events on the lives of people around the world. Documentary usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle significant and historical events. It is typically covered in professional photojournalism, but it may also be an amateur, artistic, or academic pursuit. The photographer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually candid photography of a particular subject, most often pictures of people.

Next 5 photos are good representations of this photographers work because he has dedicated his career to documenting the effects of international events on the lives of people around the world. Here you can see nice black and white contrast and motion. I belive he used natural daylight. You can see veey effective depth of field in this picture + good usage of daylight which gives nice shadows. In this picture you can see depth of field, rule of thirds. For lighting he used daylight + lights on the plane wall which gives some warm tones.

In this picture photograper used depth of field and people as diagaonal lines and he used natural sunlight.