Ashley Gilbertson

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Ashley Gilbertson (born 22 January 1978) is an award-winning photographer best known for his images of the Iraq war. Born in Melbourne, Australia, he started his career at thirteen taking pictures of skateboarders.[1] After graduating secondary school, he was mentored by Filipino photographer Emmanuel Santos,[1] and later Masao Endo in the Japanese highlands.

While he was based in Australia, Gilbertson worked on socially driven photo essays ranging from drug addiction in Melbourne to war zones in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. In 1999 he photographed Kosovar refugees who had been granted temporary safe haven in Australia. For the next three years Gilbertson's work focused on various refugee problems across the globe.[2]

In 2002, Gilbertson travelled to the Kurdish enclave of Northern Iraq. Shortly thereafter, President George W. Bush made a case for war in Iraq, and Gilbertson travelled back to cover the story at the beginning of 2003. His work was published widely, and one of his images from the invasion was included in Time Magazine's 'Pictures of the Year'. In 2004 Gilbertson won the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award from the Overseas Press Club for his photographic reportage on 'The Battle For Fallujah'. The Capa Award is for "the best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise".[3] Since then, Gilbertson spent another four years in Iraq, covering the war on contract for The New York Times.[1] A photographic memoir of Gilbertson's time there entitled Whiskey Tango Foxtrot was published by the University of Chicago Press in the fall of 2007.[4]

In March 2009, he became a member of the VII Photo Agency's VII Network.

In 2011, Gilbertson won a National Magazine Award for his series "Bedrooms of The Fallen", a work in progress he says will become a book in 2012. http://www.theage.com.au/national/bringing-home-the-tragedy-of-war-20110805-1if93.html

Gilbertson lives with his wife and son in New York City.

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[edit] Awards and nominations

[edit] Exhibitions

[edit] Bibliography

  • 21 Days to Baghdad: Photos and Dispatches from the Battlefield, Time Magazine (June 2003) ISBN 1932273123
  • Witness Iraq: A War Journal, Powerhouse Books, 1st edition (2003)
  • Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain, University Of Chicago Press (2006)
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War, University Of Chicago Press (November, 2007) ISBN 0226293254

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Harrison, Dan (17 February 2008). "Eyes on cameraman with a conscience". The Age. http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/cameraman-with-a-conscience/2008/02/16/1202760669133.html. Retrieved 23 February 2010. 
  2. ^ Leigh Dicks, brett (21 November 2007). "Photographer Ashley Gilbertson Gets Personal in Iraq". Santa Barbara Independent. http://www.independent.com/news/2007/nov/21/photographer-ashley-gilbertson-gets-personal-iraq/. Retrieved 23 February 2010. 
  3. ^ "Ashley Gilbertson Wins The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award For Coverage Of Fallujah". National Press Photographers Association. http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/04/gilbertson.html. Retrieved 23 February 2010. 
  4. ^ Filkins, Dexter (18 November 2007). "In Frying Pan and Fire". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/arts/18gilb.html. Retrieved 23 February 2010. 

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