Peter Turnley

Peter Turnley

Peter Turnley is an American photojournalist. Currently a contributing editor/photographer at "Harper's" and represented by Corbis, from 1984 till 2001 he was a contract photographer for "Newsweek," where his photographs were featured on the cover more than 40 times. [ [http://www.peterturnley.com/covers.html Turnley's site] ]

Turnley has photographed world conflicts in the Balkans (Bosnia), Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iraq (2003), the Gulf War (1991), and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

His photographs frequently appear in international magazines such as "Stern, Paris Match, Geo, Life, National Geographic, The Sunday Times, Le Figaro, Le Monde", and "DoubleTake". He has published five books: "Beijing Spring, Moments of Revolution, In Times of War and Peace, Parisians," and "McClellan Street." [ [http://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=peter+turnley Amazon search] ]

He has won numerous awards including the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad, numerous awards and citations from World Press Photo, and the Pictures of the Year competition of the University of Missouri.Fact|date=July 2007

Peter and his twin brother, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer David C. Turnley, were the subjects of a biographical 60 Minutes piece, 'Double Exposure', [ [http://www.peterturnley.com/videos.html# Turnley's site] ] which aired internationally at the time of their retrospective exhibition, 'In Times of War and Peace' at New York’s International Center of Photography in 1996.

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External links

* [http://www.harpers.org/subjects/PeterTurnley Turnley's Harper's Collection]
* [http://www.peterturnley.com Turnley's site]
* [http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/9900/Sep27_99/13.htm Michigan Greats: David and Peter Turnley]
* [http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt_intro.html The Unseen Gulf War]
* [http://www.abbeville.com/parisians/affair-of-the-heart.asp Written Introduction to "Parisians", Peter Turnley]


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