Neal Ulevich

Neal Hirsh Ulevich (born June 18, 1946 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American photographer, and winner of a Pulitzer Prize.

Life

A native of Milwaukee, Ulevich attended public and private schools before enrolling at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he graduated in 1968 with a BA degree in Journalism. While at UW he began a career-long association with Associated Press, first as a campus correspondent, later as part time staff. He developed a strong interest in China while a student, a fascination which determined the direction of his career.

After graduation he worked for AP as a writer in St. Louis, Missouri, before resigning to study Chinese language in Hong Kong. In 1970 friends and associates in journalism urged him to travel to Indochina to witness the U.S. incursion into Cambodia, assuring him the cross-border operation would herald “the last two weeks of the war.”

The advice was premature. Ulevich witnessed the last two weeks of the Indochina war in April, 1975. During the interim he freelanced as both writer and photojournalist and rejoined AP in the Saigon, Vietnam, bureau. He returned to UW on a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in journalism, later resuming his AP work in Saigon. He covered the chaotic evacuation from Saigon at war’s end, departing by helicopter from the roof of the U.S. embassy.

An AP assignment to Bangkok followed. A worsening political situation in 1976 culminated in violent confrontation at Thammasat University in the Thai capital. He made images which won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.

After Thailand Ulevich worked for AP as Asia Photo Editor in Tokyo and as photojournalist in Beijing. He returned to Tokyo in 1988 to supervise AP’s electronic communications for Asia.

He returned to the United States in 1990. Ulevich retired from AP to resume freelance photography in 2002. He currently lives in Thornton, Colorado, a suburb of Denver.

Awards

• 1985 World Press Photo, 3rd Prize, Arts and Entertainment^[1]
• 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography^[2]
• 1976 World Press Photo, 3rd Prize, Spot News^[3]

Works

• "Hanged student outside the Thammasat" World Press Photo Spot News, 3rd prize, 1976
• Heinz Dietrich Fischer, Erika J. Fischer, ed (2000). "About Heavy Disorder and Brutality in the Streets of Bangkok in 1976". Press photography awards, 1942-1998: from Joe Rosenthal and Horst Faas to Moneta Sleet and Stan Grossfeld. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783598301841. http://books.google.com/books?id=Lace6Iu4cW4C&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=neal+ulevich&source=bl&ots=L9cxbwPUXo&sig=qqO3jqNgsvEhx-l9x_UvD1jBZUU&hl=en&ei=oStCS8nyPIyMMrv9-doJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CBYQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q=neal%20ulevich&f=false. 

References

1. ^ http://www.archive.worldpressphoto.org/search/layout/result/indeling/detailwpp/form/wpp/q/ishoofdafbeelding/true/trefwoord/photographer_formal/Ulevich,%20Neal
2. ^ http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1977
3. ^ http://www.archive.worldpressphoto.org/search/layout/result/indeling/detailwpp/form/wpp/start/1/q/ishoofdafbeelding/true/trefwoord/photographer_formal/Ulevich,%20Neal

External links

• "Photographer's website"
• "Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Neal Ulevich to speak at UNM", UNM Today, October 29, 2004
• "Wisconsin Alumni Association - Noise at the Edge of Silence"

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