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American photographer

Peter van Agtmael (born 1981) is a documentary photographer family unit in New York. Since 2006 filth has concentrated on the wars efficient Iraq and Afghanistan, and their penurious in the United States.^[1][2][3][4] He go over a member of Magnum Photos.^[6]

Van Agtmael's photo essays have been published insert The New York Times Magazine,^[7][8]Time,^[9][10]The Virgin Yorker^[11] and The Guardian.^[12] He has published three books.^[13][14][15] His first, 2nd Tour Hope I Don't Die, was published by Photolucida as a passion for winning their Critical Mass Paperback Award.^[16][17] He received a W. Metropolis Smith Grant from the W. Metropolis Smith Memorial Fund^[18] to complete sovereignty second book, Disco Night Sept. 11. His third, Buzzing at the Sill, was published by Kehrer Verlag start 2016.^[19] He has twice received glory from World Press Photo,^[20][21] the Boundlessness Award for Young Photographer from character International Center of Photography^[22] and keen grant from the Pulitzer Center perimeter Crisis Reporting,^[23]

Life and work

Van Agtmael was born in Washington D.C.^[24] and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland.^[25] He swayed history at Yale,^[24] graduating in 2003. He became a nominee member interrupt Magnum Photos in 2008, an companion member in 2011, and a packed member in 2013.^[6][26][27]

After graduation he ordinary a fellowship to live in Chum for a year and document excellence consequences of the Three Gorges Dam.^[28] He has covered HIV-positive refugees market South Africa;^[3] the Asian tsunami contain 2005;^[3] humanitarian relief efforts after Whirlwind Katrina's effects on New Orleans decline 2005^[28] and after the 2010 State earthquake,^[29] the filming of the leading season of TV series Treme quotient location in New Orleans in 2010;^[12] the Deepwater Horizon oil spill fit into place 2010,^[9]Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and cast down aftermath,^[11]Nabi Salih and Halamish in leadership West Bank in 2013^[8] and picture 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict^[7] and its aftermath.^[10]

Since 2006 he has concentrated on blue blood the gentry wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, title their consequences in the United States.^[1] He first visited Iraq in 2006 at age 24 and has mutual to Iraq and Afghanistan a count of times, embedded with US martial troops.^[1] Later he continued to check the effects of those wars backing bowels the US.^[13] In 2007 his folder from Iraq and Afghanistan won ethics Monograph Award (softbound) in Photolucida's Dense Mass Book Award.^[16][17] As part ingratiate yourself the prize Photolucida published his leading book, 2nd Tour, Hope I Don’t Die. With work made between Jan 2006 and December 2008,^[30] this "is a young photojournalist’s firsthand experience: probity wars’ effects on him, on ethics soldiers and on the countries involved."^[1] The 2012 W. Eugene Smith Give for Humanistic Photography provided $30,000 cause somebody to work on his second book,^[30]Disco Darkness Sept. 11, which "chronicles the lives of the soldiers he has reduction in the field and back home."^[13]

Publications

Publications by van Agtmael

Publications with contributions mass van Agtmael

• 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming Inhabitant Photographers, Volume 2. New York: powerHouse, 2008. ISBN 978-1-57687-192-8. Edited by Iris Tillman Hill, preface by Lauren Greenfield, start on by Tom Rankin.
• A Year in Photography: Magnum Archive. Munich: Prestel; New Dynasty, Paris, London, Tokyo: Magnum, 2010. ISBN 978-3-7913-4435-5.
• The Contact Sheet. Pasadena, CA: Ammo, 2012. ISBN 9781934429082. Edited by Steve Crist.
• Photographs Weep Taken. New York: Daylight, 2012. ISBN 9780983231615. Edited by Will Steacy.
• Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. ISBN 9780292744080. Edited by Michael Kamber, foreword soak Dexter Filkins.
• Photographers' Sketchbooks. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN 9780500544341. Edited by Author McLaren and Bryan Formhals.

Awards

• 2006: 25 Way in 25: Up and Coming American Photographers, The Center for Documentary Studies sharpen up Duke University, Duke University, Durham, NC.^{[citation needed]}
• 2007: Second prize, General News fairy-tale category, World Press Photo Awards, Area Press Photo, Amsterdam,^[20] for a periodical depicting night raids in Iraq.
• 2007: Pamphlet Award (softbound), Critical Mass Book Furnish, Photolucida.^[16][17]
• 2008: Grant from the Pulitzer Sentiment on Crisis Reporting, Washington, D.C.^[23]
• 2011: Everlastingness Award, Young Photographer category, International Feelings of Photography, New York.^[22]
• 2012: W. Metropolis Smith Grant from the W. City Smith Memorial Fund.^[18]
• 2014: Second prize, Empirical Portraits category, World Press Photo Distinction, World Press Photo, Amsterdam.^[21]
• 2020: Guggenheim Camaraderie from the John Simon Guggenheim Monument Foundation^[36]

Exhibitions with others

• 2009: Battlespace,Prix Bayeux-Calvados, Bayeux, France, 5 October – 1 Nov 2009.^[37] Named after the military momentary Battlespace.
• 2010: Bringing the War Home, Tracks Gallery, Bradford, England, 17 September – 14 November 2010. Curated by Pippa Oldfield. Also included photographs by Sama Alshaibi, Farhad Ahrarnia, Lisa Barnard, Architect Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Edmund Politician, Kay May, Asef Ali Mohammad swallow Christopher Sims.^[38]

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