Photographer #276: Damon Winter

Sunday, April 24, 2011
Damon Winter, 1974, USA, is a photographer who is highly competent in various kinds of photography. He is based in New York City and works as a staff photographer for The New York Times. He focuses on photojournalism, documentary work, celebrity portraiture and travel photography. For his work he has traveled extensively to places as Iceland, Japan and Afghanistan. His photo essay on sexual abuse victims in Alaska in 2005 was nominated for a Pullitzer Prize, but it wasn't until 2009 that he won the Pullitzer Prize for feature photography with his images that captured the different facets of Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The following images come from his portfolio Faces and from the stories Afghanistan and Haiti Earthquake.




Website: www.damonwinter.com