- James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey (born 1948) is an influential American photojournalist and war photographer. In 2003, he was injured by a grenade in an attack on his convoy along with Michael Weisskopf while serving as a TIME contributing correspondent in Baghdad. - Christian Frei
Christian Frei is a Swiss filmmaker. He is mostly known for his two films "War Photographer" (2001) and "The Giant Buddhas" (2005). Both deal with topics and themes more or less linked to war and intolerance. Born in 1959, in Schönenwerd, Switzerland, Christian Frei studied visual media in the Department of Journalism and Communication at Freiburg University. He made his first documentary, "Die Stellvertreterin" ("The Representative") in 1981. - Robert Capa
Robert Capa (Budapest, October 22 1913 - May 25, 1954) was a famous war photographer during the 20th century. He covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. Capa documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris. - Zoriah
Zoriah is an award winning American photojournalist and war photographer. - Mathew Brady
Mathew B. Brady, was a celebrated American photographer whose rise to prominence occurred largely in the years preceding and during the American Civil War. Following the conflict, a war weary public lost interest in seeing photos of the war, and Brady’s popularity and practice declined drastically. Brady was born in Warren County, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, Andrew and Julia Brady. He moved to New York City at the age of 17. By 1844, … - Don McCullin
Donald McCullin, FRPS CBE (b. October 9, 1935, London, England), is an internationally-regarded British photojournalist, particularly recognised for his war photography and images of urban strife. His photojournalism career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have reported the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished. - Lee Miller
Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller (23 April 1907 - 21 July 1977) was an American photographer. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York State in 1907, she was a successful fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris to become a fashion and fine art photographer. During the Second World War, she became an acclaimed war correspondent and photojournalist - W. Eugene Smith
William Eugene Smith (1918-1978) was an American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid World War II photographs. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Smith graduated from Wichita High School North in 1936. He began his career by taking pictures for two local newspapers, the "Eagle" and the "Beacon". - Philip Jones Griffiths
Philip Jones Griffiths (b. 1936) is a Welsh-born photojournalist known for his coverage of the Vietnam war. Griffiths studied pharmacy but started as a freelance photographer in 1961, traveling to Algeria in 1962. He arrived in Vietnam in 1966, working for the Magnum agency. Magnum found his images difficult to sell to American magazines, … - Gerda Taro
Gerda Taro (real name Gerda Pohorylles; 1911 - Spain 1937) was a German war photographer of Polish origins, and close friend, partner, companion and the great love of Robert Capa, also one of the iconographers of the Spanish Civil War. A left-wing militant, Gerda Taro left Stuttgart for Paris in 1934, where she met Robert Capa. They worked together to cover the events surrounding the arrival to power of the Popular Front in the 30s in France. - Eddie Adams
Eddie Adams was an American photographer noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and as a photojournalist having covered 13 wars. It was while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press that he took his best-known photograph - the picture of police chief General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem, on a Saigon street, on February 1, 1968, during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive. - Tim Page
Tim Page (born May 25 1944) in Tunbridge Wells, Kent is an award-winning British photographer who made his name during the Vietnam War and is now based in Brisbane, Australia. - Alexander Gardner
Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was an American photographer. He is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War and his portraits of American President Abraham Lincoln. Gardner has often had his work misattributed to Mathew Brady, and despite his considerable output, historians have tended to give Gardner less than full recognition for his documentation of the Civil War. Gardner was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1821. - Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 - August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and photojournalist. - Larry Burrows
Larry Burrows (May 29, 1926 to February 10, 1971) was a photographer best known for his pictures of the American involvement in the Vietnam War. Burrows was born in London in 1926. He left school at age 16 and took a job in "Life magazine's" London bureau. Burrows printed photographs for "Life". Some accounts blame Burrows for melting photographer Robert Capa's D-Day pictures in the drying cabinet. But the reality is not so "legendary". - Joe Rosenthal
Joe Rosenthal (October 9 1911 - August 20 2006) was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima", taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima. His picture became one of the best-known photographs of the war. - Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter (September 13,1960 - July 27,1994) was an award-winning South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. Carter began his career as a weekend sports photographer in 1983 for Johannesburg's "Sunday Express". A year later he moved on to work for the Johannesburg "Star" bent on exposing the brutality of apartheid. That same year Carter's first "Time" cover appeared. - Christopher Morris
Christopher Morris (born 1958) is an American photojournalist, best known for his war photographs. Morris was born in California and is currently based in New York. During the past 20 years most of his work has concentrated on war. Some of the wars he has photographed were the US invasion of Iraq, the drug war in Colombia, the Persian Gulf war, the wars in Afghanistan, Somilia, Yugoslavia, and Chechnya. He has documented more than 18 foreign conflicts. - Ashley Gilbertson
Ashley Gilbertson (born January 22, 1978) is an award-winning photographer best known for his images of the Iraq war. Gilbertson was born in Melbourne, Australia where he started his career at thirteen taking pictures of skateboarders. After graduating secondary school, he was mentored by Filipino photographer Emmanuel Santos, and later Masao Endo in the Japanese highlands. - Dirck Halstead
Dirck Halstead, (born December 1936 in Huntington, New York), is a photojournalist, and editor and publisher of an online photojournalism magazine. Halstead started in photojournalism while in high school. At age 17, he became Life magazine's youngest combat photographer covering the Guatemalan Civil War. After attending Haverford College, he went on to work for UPI for more than 15 years. During the Vietnam War he was UPI's picture bureau chief in Saigon. - Catherine Leroy
Catherine Leroy (b.1945, Paris - d.July 8 2006, Santa Monica) was a French-born photojournalist and war photographer, whose stark images of battle illustrated the story of the Vietnam War in the pages of Life magazine and other publications. Catherine was brought up in a convent in Paris. She was moved by images of war she had seen in Paris Match, … - David Douglas Duncan
David Douglas Duncan (born January 23, 1916) is an American photojournalist and among the most influential photographers of the 20th Century. He is best known for his dramatic combat photographs. - Horst Faas
Horst Faas (born 27 April 1933 in Berlin, Germany) is a photo-journalist and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for photography who is best-known for his images of the Vietnam War. Faas began his photographic career in 1951 with the Keystone Agency, and by the age of 21 he was already covering major events concerning Indochina, including the peace negotiations in Geneva in 1954. In 1956 he joined the Associated Press (AP), … - Henri Huet
Henri Huet (April 4, 1927 - 10 February, 1971) was a war photographer, noted for his work covering the Vietnam War for Associated Press (AP). - Damien Parer
Damien Peter Parer (1 August 1912 - 17 September 1944) was an Australian war photographer. He became famous for his war photography of the Second World War, and was killed by Japanese machinegun fire at Peleliu, Palau. He married Elizabeth Marie Cotter on 23 March 1944, and his son, producer Damien Parer, was born post-humously. He was also the uncle of Australian politician Warwick Parer. He was cinematographer for Australia's first Oscar winning film, Kokoda Front Line, … - Sean Flynn
Sean Leslie Flynn (born May 31, 1941, disappeared April 6, 1970, believed captured by factions of Viet Cong and/or Khmer Rouge; believed killed 1971, Bei Met, Cambodia) was an American actor and freelance photojournalist best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War. He started a news service in Saigon with John Steinbeck IV, son of the American author. Flynn was the only child from the marriage of actors Errol Flynn and Lili Damita, … - John Hoagland
John Hoagland (15 June, 1947 - 16 March, 1984) was a war photographer and photojournalist noted for his documentation of civil conflicts in Nicaragua, Lebanon, and El Salvador. Hoagland was born in San Diego, California, and educated at the University of California, San Diego. During the Vietnam War, Hoagland applied for and received conscientious objector status, but war was a subject that had a massive impact on his life and death. - George Silk
George Silk (November 17, 1916 - October 23, 2004) was born in New Zealand, and served as a photojournalist for "Life" for 30 years. Mr. Silk's career as a war photographer began in 1939, when he was a combat cameraman for the Australian government, covering action in the Middle East, North Africa and Greece. Trapped with the famed Desert Rats at Tobruk in Libya, he was captured by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces but escaped 10 days later. - Felice Beato
Felice Beato (born 1833 or 1834, died c.1907), sometimes known as Felix Beato, was a Corfiote photographer. He was one of the first photographers to take pictures in East Asia and one of the first war photographers. He is noted for his genre works, portraits, and views and panoramas of the architecture and landscapes of Asia and the Mediterranean region. - Ami Vitale
Ami Vitale (Born in 1971) is an American photojournalist. She has a degree in International Studies from the University of North Carolina. Her photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report and The New York Times, among others and two stories which she completed in 2001 in Guinea Bissau and Mauritania placed first in the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism. She has won many awards for her pictures, … - James Robertson
James Robertson was a British photographer and gem and coin engraver who worked in the Mediterranean region, the Crimea and India. He was one of the first war photographers. Robertson was born in Middlesex in 1813. He trained as an engraver under Wyon (probably William Wyon) and in 1843 he began work as an engraver at the Imperial Ottoman Mint in Constantinople. It is believed that Robertson became interested in photography while in the Ottoman Empire in the 1840s. - Lucian Perkins
Lucian Perkins is an American photojournalist who has worked for the Washington Post since 1979. He has won numerous awards, including the World Press Photo of the Year award in 1996 for a photograph of a boy peering out the window of a bus leaving Chechnya. In 1995 he and Post reporter Leon Dash were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for their four-year study of the effects of poverty on three generations of a Washington, D.C., family. - Huynh Cong Ut
Huỳnh Công Út, also known as Nick Ut is a photographer for the Associated Press (AP) who works out of Los Angeles. His best known photo is the Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, who was photographed as a naked 9-year-old girl running toward the camera to flee a South Vietnamese napalm attack on the Trang Bang village during the Vietnam War. - Bert Hardy
Bert Hardy (1913, London, UK-1995) was a British documentary and press photographer. He rose from humble working class origins to work first for the General Photographic Agency, then to found his own freelance firm Criterion. In 1941 Criterion was absorbed into the leading picture publication of the 1930s and 1940s, "Picture Post". - Dana Stone
Dana Stone (born 1939 in North Pomfret, Vermont; believed killed 1971, Bei Met, Cambodia) was a U.S. photo-journalist best known for his work for CBS during the Vietnam War. Stone paid his own way to Vietnam in 1965, and became a stringer for UPI. A novice photographer when he arrived in Saigon, he soon became a combat photographer of note. He and his wife Louise left Saigon for Europe in 1968, but returned in 1970. - Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Timothy H. O'Sullivan (c. 1840 - January 14 1882) was a photographer prominent for his work on subjects in the American Civil War and the Western United States. O'Sullivan was born in either Ireland or New York City. As a teenager, he was employed by Mathew Brady. When the Civil War began in early 1861, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Union Army and, over the next year, fought in Beaufort, Port Royal, Fort Walker, and Fort Pulaski. - Jack Turner
Brenton Harold Turner, aka Jack Turner, (September 24, 1889 - October 6, 1989) was a war photographer from Prince Edward Island, Canada.<br/> Turner was a soldier with the Second Canadian Siege Battery during the First World War. While in Europe he smuggled a German-built 2" x 3" format camera with him and took approximately 99 photographs from the war zone.<br/>; After the war, Mr. Turner returned to PEI, married and took up farming in Knutsford, Prince Edward Island. - Alfred Yaghobzadeh
Alfred Yaghobzadeh, is an Iranian Photographer noted for his war photography. Yaghobzadeh was born in Tehran, to a Christian family with an Armenian father and Assyrian mother. His photographs in Iran during the turmoil of 1979 and during the Iran-Iraq war led to his work for the (Associated Press), Gamma, and Sygma news agancies. Since 1983 Yaghobzadeh has photographed for the Sipa Press. and his photos have also appeared in "Time, Newsweek, Stern, Paris Match, … - Tony Vaccaro
Tony Vaccaro (b. December 20, 1922), also known as Michael A. Vaccaro, is an American photographer who is best known for his photos taken in Europe during 1944 and 1945 and in Germany immediately after World War II. After the war, he became a renowned fashion and lifestyle photographer for U.S. magazines. Born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania as the second child of three (and the only boy) of his parents, who were Italian immigrants, … - Thomas C. Roche
Thomas C. Roche was a photographer known for his photographs of the American Civil War. Roche's first job as a professional photographer was for Henry T. Anthony, a chemist in New York, and his brother Edward, for whom he took photographs of the city and the harbor starting in 1859. He was hired during the war as one of a number of photographers working under Mathew Brady, traveling with troops and photographing the front lines; Roche was assigned to the Army of the James.
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