Peter van Agtmael (born 1981) is a documentary photographer based in New York. Since 2006 he has concentrated on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their consequences in the United States. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] He is a member of Magnum Photos. [6]
Van Agtmael's photo essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, [7] [8] Time, [9] [10] The New Yorker [11] and The Guardian. [12] He has published three books. [13] [14] [15] His first, 2nd Tour Hope I Don't Die, was published by Photolucida as a prize for winning their Critical Mass Book Award. [16] [17] He received a W. Eugene Smith Grant from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund [18] to complete his second book, Disco Night Sept. 11. His third, Buzzing at the Sill, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2016. [19] He has twice received awards from World Press Photo, [20] [21] the Infinity Award for Young Photographer from the International Center of Photography [22] and a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, [23]
Van Agtmael was born in Washington D.C. [24] and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. [25] He studied history at Yale, [24] graduating in 2003. He became a nominee member of Magnum Photos in 2008, an associate member in 2011, and a full member in 2013. [6] [26] [27]
After graduation he received a fellowship to live in China for a year and document the consequences of the Three Gorges Dam. [28] He has covered HIV-positive refugees in South Africa; [3] the Asian tsunami in 2005; [3] humanitarian relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina's effects on New Orleans in 2005 [28] and after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, [29] the filming of the first season of TV series Treme on location in New Orleans in 2010; [12] the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, [9] Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and its aftermath, [11] Nabi Salih and Halamish in the West Bank in 2013 [8] and the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict [7] and its aftermath. [10]
Since 2006 he has concentrated on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their consequences in the United States. [1] He first visited Iraq in 2006 at age 24 and has returned to Iraq and Afghanistan a number of times, embedded with US military troops. [1] Later he continued to investigate the effects of those wars within the US. [13] In 2007 his portfolio from Iraq and Afghanistan won the Monograph Award (softbound) in Photolucida's Critical Mass Book Award. [16] [17] As part of the prize Photolucida published his first book, 2nd Tour, Hope I Don’t Die. With work made between January 2006 and December 2008, [30] this "is a young photojournalist’s firsthand experience: the wars’ effects on him, on the soldiers and on the countries involved." [1] The 2012 W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography provided $30,000 to work on his second book, [30] Disco Night Sept. 11, which "chronicles the lives of the soldiers he has met in the field and back home." [13]
Peter van Agtmael (born 1981) is a documentary photographer based in New York. Since 2006 he has concentrated on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their consequences in the United States. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] He is a member of Magnum Photos. [6]
Van Agtmael's photo essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, [7] [8] Time, [9] [10] The New Yorker [11] and The Guardian. [12] He has published three books. [13] [14] [15] His first, 2nd Tour Hope I Don't Die, was published by Photolucida as a prize for winning their Critical Mass Book Award. [16] [17] He received a W. Eugene Smith Grant from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund [18] to complete his second book, Disco Night Sept. 11. His third, Buzzing at the Sill, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2016. [19] He has twice received awards from World Press Photo, [20] [21] the Infinity Award for Young Photographer from the International Center of Photography [22] and a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, [23]
Van Agtmael was born in Washington D.C. [24] and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. [25] He studied history at Yale, [24] graduating in 2003. He became a nominee member of Magnum Photos in 2008, an associate member in 2011, and a full member in 2013. [6] [26] [27]
After graduation he received a fellowship to live in China for a year and document the consequences of the Three Gorges Dam. [28] He has covered HIV-positive refugees in South Africa; [3] the Asian tsunami in 2005; [3] humanitarian relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina's effects on New Orleans in 2005 [28] and after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, [29] the filming of the first season of TV series Treme on location in New Orleans in 2010; [12] the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, [9] Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and its aftermath, [11] Nabi Salih and Halamish in the West Bank in 2013 [8] and the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict [7] and its aftermath. [10]
Since 2006 he has concentrated on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their consequences in the United States. [1] He first visited Iraq in 2006 at age 24 and has returned to Iraq and Afghanistan a number of times, embedded with US military troops. [1] Later he continued to investigate the effects of those wars within the US. [13] In 2007 his portfolio from Iraq and Afghanistan won the Monograph Award (softbound) in Photolucida's Critical Mass Book Award. [16] [17] As part of the prize Photolucida published his first book, 2nd Tour, Hope I Don’t Die. With work made between January 2006 and December 2008, [30] this "is a young photojournalist’s firsthand experience: the wars’ effects on him, on the soldiers and on the countries involved." [1] The 2012 W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography provided $30,000 to work on his second book, [30] Disco Night Sept. 11, which "chronicles the lives of the soldiers he has met in the field and back home." [13]