Peter Turnley is renown for his photography of the realities of the human condition. His
photographs have been featured on the cover of Newsweek 43 times and are
published frequently in the world’s most prestigious publications. He has
worked in over 90 countries and has witnessed most major stories of
international geo-political and historic significance in the last thirty years.
His photographs draw attention to the plight of those who suffer great
hardships or injustice. He also affirms with his vision the many aspects of life
that are beautiful, poetic, just, and inspirational.
Turnley’s photographs have
been featured in Newsweek,Harper’s, Stern, Paris
Match, Geo, LIFE, National Geographic, The London Sunday
Times, VSD, Le Figaro, Le Monde, New Yorker,
and DoubleTake. Peter Turnley worked on contract for the Newsweek
Magazine from 1986-2001 and as a contributing editor/photographer
with Harper’s Magazine from 2003-2007. His work is frequently
published in photo essay form in magazines, on major television networks such
as CNN, ABC’s “Nightline”, and in online publications, such as The Online
Photographer. Turnley’s photographs have been published the world over and have
won many international awards including the Overseas Press Club Award for Best
Photographic Reporting from Abroad, numerous awards and citations from World
Press Photo, and the University of Missouri’s Pictures of the Year competition.
Turnley has photographed most
of the world’s conflicts of the last decade including the Gulf War-1991, the
Balkans (Bosnia), Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Kosovo, the war in
Iraq-2003, and also maintains an ongoing documentation of the major refugee
populations of the world. He witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the
revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989, the liberation of Nelson Mandela and the
end of apartheid in South Africa. He was in New York at “Ground Zero” on Sept
11, 2001, New Orleans during the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, Haiti after
the tragic earthquake of 2011, and Egypt during the toppling of Hosni Mubarak
in 2011. He is currently working on a long-term project on daily life in Cuba,
“Cuba-A Grace of Spirit”. Turnley has produced portraits and covered many of
the modern world’s most influential people: Obama, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin,
Mandela, Arafat, Schroeder, Ceausescu, Gaddafi, Chirac, Clinton, Reagan, Bush
Sr, Lady Diana, and Pope Jean Paul II among others.
Since 1975, Turnley has also
continually photographed the life of Paris, his adopted home. Turnley was born
in the U.S., but has lived more than half his life in Paris. His tender,
humorous, and sensual view of Paris, offers distinct contrast to the stark
realities depicted in his photojournalism. He has photographed the extensively
the life of Paris these past 35 years. Turnley worked as the assistant to the
famous French photographer Robert Doisneau in Paris in the early 1980’s.
A graduate of the University
of Michigan, the Sorbonne of Paris, and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of
Paris, Turnley has received Honorary Doctorate degrees from the New School of
Social Research in New York and St. Francis College of Indiana. He received a
Nieman Fellowship from Harvard for the academic year 2000-2001.
Peter Turnley also teaches
photography workshops on street photography and the photo-essay in Paris, Cuba,
New York, Mumbai, Venice, Sicily, and Lisbon.
He presently lives in both New
York and Paris, and has previously published six books of his work: French
Kiss – A Love Letter to Paris, Beijing Spring, Moments of
Revolution, In Times of War and Peace, Parisians, and McClellan
Street. Website
All images © Peter Turnley
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