Kevin Frayer
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Kevin Frayer (born 1973) is a
In 2006 and 2009, along with colleagues from the AP he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for images from the war in Lebanon and Afghanistan respectively.[3][4] His photographs of Palestinian protesters caught in a tear gas assault won a prize from the World Press Photo awards in 2009.[5] He is married to the journalist Janis Mackey Frayer, a foreign correspondent for NBC News.
In 2013, Frayer left AP and joined Getty Images as a contract photographer in Asia. As of 2016 he has been based in China.[6]
Recognition
In April 2015 he won the prestigious Chris Hondros Fund Award. More recently, Frayer won two major awards in the 2016 World Press Photo Contest for photojournalists, including a first prize in the Daily Life category for an image from China and a second place in the Daily Life 'stories' category for a series about the Tibetan Dharma festival.[7] His work has won numerous other awards and citations and has been widely published and exhibited internationally.
References
- ^ Time magazine
- ^ World Press Photo profile
- ^ "Kevin Frayer". Dream the End. Dream the End. 2016. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
- ^ "Kevin Frayer: Afghanistan, Helmand". Art of Photojournalism. The Photojournalism Blogspot. February 7, 2001. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
- ^ World Press Photo Awards, 2009
- ^ Frayer, Kevin (2016). "Kevin Frayer Photojournalist". Kevin Frayer. Kevin Frayer. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
- ^ Mitsui, Evan (February 18, 2016). "2016 World Press Photo Contest winners include a Canadian". CBC News. CBC/Radio Canada. Retrieved April 8, 2016.