Lucian Perkins

Lucian Perkins

Lucian Perkins is an American photojournalist who has worked for "The Washington Post" since 1979. He has won numerous awards, including the World Press Photo of the Year award in 1996 for a photograph of a boy peering out the window of a bus leaving Chechnya. In 1995 he and Post reporter Leon Dash were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for their four-year study of the effects of poverty on three generations of a Washington, D.C., family. He shared a second Pulitzer Prize in 2000 with two Post photographers for the coverage of Kosovo. He was also named Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 1994 by the National Press Photographers Association for a portfolio that included his coverage of Russia, a subject he became fascinated with in the late 1980s. In 1995, Lucian Perkins founded InterFoto, an international photojournalism conference in Moscow. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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* [http://www.lucianperkins.com LucianPerkins.com]


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