Hutton Honors College
— Discussion Lunch with Peter Turnley
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Covering the World: Discussion Lunch with Peter TurnleyWednesday, Oct. 31, 2007 * 12:30-2 p.m. * Harlos House, 1331 E. Tenth St. * SIGN-UP REQUIRED
Peter Turnley has been a passionate and engaged photographer of the
world's best and worst moments, of war and peace, of leaders and victims,
of the powerful and the dispossessed. In the past 20 some years, Peter
Turnley has covered most major international news events, including the
fall of the Berlin Wall, the release from prison of Nelson Mandela, and
conflicts in the Balkans, Somalia, Rwanda, Chechnya, Haiti, Afghanistan,
Kosovo, and the Middle East, as well as the 1991 Gulf War, Ground Zero on
the night of 9/11, the war in Iraq, and the aftermath of Katrina. He has
also covered many of the world’s most famous people but has made a
personal commitment to document the plight of the world’s refugee
populations. His pictures capture powerful and painful images of war,
poverty, and disaster, as well as humanistic portraits of the “Family of
Man.” His photographs have appeared in Newsweek (including more than 40
covers), Time, The New York Times, The London Sunday Times, National
Geographic, Le Monde, Paris Match, Stern, Doule Take, Harper's, and other
major publications around the world. His numerous awards include the
Overseas Press Club Award for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad and
awards and citations from World Press Photo and from the Pictures of the
Year competition run by the University of Missouri. He has been a Nieman
Fellow at Harvard. Currently a contributing editor/photographer for
Harpers Magazine, he has published five books, Beijing Spring, Moments of
Revolution, In Times of War and Peace, Parisians, and McClellan Street,
which includes more than 100 black and white photographs he and his broth
took in the early 1970s as part of a high school project documenting the
life of a working class neighborhood in their home town of Fort Wayne,
Indiana.
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