Photojournalist
Biography - Wendell Phillips
Vancouver based Wendell Phillips began his
photojournalism career as a staff news photographer in 1981. He’s since earned over 30 Picture of the Year awards
in categories of news, feature, sports, pictorial
and photo essay. He was voted Canada's News Photographer of the Year in
1988 and nominated Canadian Photojournalist of the Year in 2007 and
2009. Phillips won a gold medal at the National Magazine Awards in
Toronto in 2007 for best magazine photography in Canada that year and a Silver
Medal the following year in the words and picture category.
In 2009, he was the recipient of the International Understanding Through Photography Award by the Photographic Society of America and also received merit award from the Art Directors Club 87th annual awards in New York City. Phillips work has been exhibited at United Nations in New York City in 2006, and this year, at the Center of Photographic Arts at Carmel, California. After several years as a staff photographer in television news and newspapers, Phillips makes his living with international media and global photo departments. His images have appeared in over a hundred publications and networks that include the New York Times, BBC World News, ABC News, Washington Post, National Geographic, South China Morning Post, The Atlantic, McLean's, National Post, and Time Magazine.
Phillips has also covered many world leaders from Pope John Paul in Rome, seven Canadian Prime Ministers, to Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President Amadou Toumani Toure in Bamako, President Evo Morales of Bolivia, President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
NPPA - National Press Photographers Association / Best of Photojournalism www.bop.nppa.org
In 2009, he was the recipient of the International Understanding Through Photography Award by the Photographic Society of America and also received merit award from the Art Directors Club 87th annual awards in New York City. Phillips work has been exhibited at United Nations in New York City in 2006, and this year, at the Center of Photographic Arts at Carmel, California. After several years as a staff photographer in television news and newspapers, Phillips makes his living with international media and global photo departments. His images have appeared in over a hundred publications and networks that include the New York Times, BBC World News, ABC News, Washington Post, National Geographic, South China Morning Post, The Atlantic, McLean's, National Post, and Time Magazine.
Assignments and Travel
Wendell Phillips has covered assignments in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Bosnia and imbeds with NATO forces in Kosovo and Sandinista soldiers in warzones of Nicaragua (1986 &1988). Other contracts include floating hospitals of Bangladesh, Haiti (Earthquake 2010) Muslim Uyghur's of China's Xinjiang province, Prisons of Nepal, Tibetan refugee camps, Landmine clearing in Cambodia, post tsunami stories in Banda Ache, Indonesia, Winter Olympic Games, World Cup of Surfing in Oahu, Hawaii, Dogrib people of the Northwest Territories , Inuit Narwhal Hunters of Polar Greenland, Burmese Karen refugee camps, Yaguas of the Amazon Basin, Ifugao’s of Northern Philippines, Surgeons of Sri Lanka, tribes of Madagascar and Ethiopia, Tuareg Nomads of Mali, Palestinian camps of Jordan, Kibera slums of Nairobi, Fishermen of Mombasa, Cholita wrestlers of South America, animals of Tanzania’s Serengeti in Africa, and stories in Egypt, Serbia, Macedonia, United Arab Emirates, and photo essays in Cuba, Jamaica,Turkey, Peru, Vietnam, Israel, Denmark, India and Transylvania in Romania.Phillips has also covered many world leaders from Pope John Paul in Rome, seven Canadian Prime Ministers, to Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President Amadou Toumani Toure in Bamako, President Evo Morales of Bolivia, President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
Awards
NPAC - News Photographers Assocation of Canada (formerly WCNPA/ONPA) www.npac.caNPPA - National Press Photographers Association / Best of Photojournalism www.bop.nppa.org
- 1988 Canada’s News Photographer of the Year (WCNPA/ONPA) Sponsered by Canadian Press
- 2007 Nominated Canadian Photojournalist of the Year (News Photographers Association of Canada
- 2009 Nominated Canadian Photojournalist of theYear (News Photographers Association of Canada
- 2013 Finalist/ National Geographic International photography competition
- 2013 Third Place - Center for Photographic Art /Carmel California/ Selected by jury for exhibition
- 2013 Picture of the Year Awards (HM/ Social Issues) NPAC
- 2007 National Magazine Awards (Canada) Gold Medal (Best Magazine Photojournalism/ Photo Essay)
- 2008 National Magazine Awards (Canada) Silver Medal (Best Words and Picture category)
- 2010 NPPA Best of Photojournalism Awards (2nd Place Portrait Series)
- 2010 NPPA Best of Photojournalism Awards (3rd Place Local Portrait Personality)
- 2010 NPPA Best of Photojournalism Awards ( HM Olympic Games Action)
- 2007 NPPA's Best of Photojournalism (HM Portrait category)
- 2010 Picture of the Year Awards ( 1st Place / Winter Olympic Games Sports Action) NPAC
- 2010 Picture of the Year Awards ( HM / Winter Olympic Games Feature Category) NPAC
- 2008 International Understanding Through Photography Award Photographic Society of America
- 2008 87th Annual Art Directors Awards (New York City) HM (Annual awards competition honoring the best work in visual communication)
- 2008 Picture of the Year Awards (HM/ Pictorial) NPAC
- 2007 Picture of the Year Awards ( HM/ Picture Story) NPAC
- 2006 Picture of the Year Awards ( 1st Place Pictorial) NPAC
- 2004 Picture of the Year Awards ( 1st Place /Picture Story) WCNPA
- 2004 Picture of the Year Awards (2nd Place/Portrait Personality) WCNPA
- 2004 Picture of the Year Awards (2nd Place/ Picture Story) WCNPA
- 2004 Picture of the Year Awards (1st Place Pictorial) WCNPA
- 2004 Picture of the Year Awards (HM / General News) WCNPA
- 2004 Picture of the Year Awards (HM Portrait Personality) WCNPA
- 2003 Picture of the Year Awards (1st Place/ Portrait Personality) WCNPA
- 2003 Picture of the Year Awards (2nd Place / Picture Story) WCNPA
- 2003 Picture of the Year Awards ( 1st Place/ Picture Story) WCNPA
- 1991 Picture of the Year Awards ( Photographers Choice) WCNPA
- 1991 Picture of the Year Awards (1st Place/ Picture Story) WCNPA
- 1991 Picture of the Year Awards (1st Place/Portrait Personality) WCNPA
- 1989 Picture of the Year Awards (3rd Place/ Picture Story) WCNPA
- 1989 Picture of the Year Awards (2nd Place/ Picture Story) WCNPA
- 1988 Picture of the Year Awards (1st Place/Portrait Personality) WCNPA
- 1988 Picture Of the Year Awards (2nd place / Picture Story) WCNPA
Speaking engagements (Partial list of 150 venues)
- Photographic Society of America/ National Conference (Charleston, South Carolina 2010)
- New England /Camera Club Council 67th Annual Conference (University of Massachusetts 2010)
- New England /Camera Club Council 68th Annual Conference (University of Massachusetts 2011)
- The Photographic Video and Digital Imaging Show October 2010 (Toronto, Ontario)
- Photographic Society of America / National conference ( Portland, Oregon - 2008 )
- CUSO's International AGM at University of Calgary ( Calgary, Alberta - 2006 )
- Southern Alberta Institute of Technology /Journalism/photojournalism program ( Calgary, Alberta 2003)
- Southern Alberta Institute of Technology /Journalism/photojournalism program (Calgary, Alberta 2005)
- Photographic Society of America/ National Conference (West Yellowstone, Wyoming 2009)
- University of British Columbia (2006 )
- Simon Fraser University (2013)
- DPI - Photo Inspirations Conference, Delta, British Columbia (2011)
- Canadian Crossroads International (Vancouver, British Columbia 2010)
- Image Quest Photographic Conference (Vancouver, British Columbia 2012)
- Marquis Project / Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba 2011)
- Western Canadian Magazine Awards (Vancouver, B.C. - 2008)
- Manitoba Council for International Cooperation (Winnipeg, Manitoba - 2006)
- Eastern Canadian News Photographers Association - Annual conference ( Toronto, Ontario - 2005)
- Eastern Canadian News Photographers Association - Annual conference (Toronto, Ontario 2007)
- Western Canadian News Photographers Association - Annual conference ( Vancouver, B.C. - 2007 )
- Western Canadian News Photographers Association - Annual conference ( Edmonton. Alberta -1988 )
- Western Canadian News Photographers Association - Annual conference ( Calgary. Alberta - 2003 )
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