Photographer on the Battlefield: Photo Lecture
ShareFollowed by conversation with Louise Steinman, curator, ALOUD
The longtime photojournalist for the L.A. Times, who has traveled the world documenting conflict, discusses his war photography in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as work on the project "Altered Oceans," for which he shared the 2007 Pulitzer Prize.
Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Rick Loomis has worked for the Los Angeles Times since 1994. Born in North Carolina and raised in South Florida, Loomis became interested in photojournalism through a high school internship at the Palm Beach Post. After a two-year stint working in the Post photo lab he left to pursue a degree at Western Kentucky University. While in college, Rick twice placed in the top ten in the William Randolph Hearst Journalism Awards.
Loomis has traveled the world documenting conflict and other issues in places like Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Vietnam, Kuwait, Mexico, Haiti and Cuba. A professional with varied teaching and lecturing experience, Loomis has presented his work at the War and Media Conference in Berkley, CA as well other learning institutions such as UCLA, Western Kentucky University, USC, Elon University (North Carolina); Northern Arizona University; Cal State Fullerton; San Jose State and Ohio University.
He has lectured at various professional gatherings such as the World Press Photo exhibition (Crisis of Images, Images of Crisis), been a keynote speaker at Robert Hanashiro's Sports Shooter workshop, Julia Dean Photo Workshops as well as teaching photography at workshops for students and professionals at the Mountain Workshops (2003-2006) in Kentucky and as a team leader for the Eddie Adams Workshop (2003).
Louise Steinman is a writer and literary curator. Her memoir, The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War, was recently published in a new paperback edition by North Atlantic Press/Random House.
