Wendell Phillips, Photojournalist

Biography - Wendell Phillips

This is a photo of me taken moments before covering Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure in the West African captial Bamako.

Vancouver (Canada) based photojournalist Wendell Phillips began his photojournalism career as a staff news photographer in 1981. He's earned 19 Picture of the Year awards since then and was voted Canada's News Photographer of the Year by the Western Canadian News Photographers Association and the Eastern Canadian News Photographers Association in 1988.

For work completed in 2007, Phillips was nominated Canadian Photojournalist of the Year (NPAC) earned the Gold Medal/first Place for best Magazine Photojournalism/Photo Essay in Canada by National Magazine Awards in Toronto. He also earned a Merit award for 87th Annual Art Directors Club of New York City and Honorable mentions in NPPA (National Press Photographers Association) Picture of the Year awards and the News Photographers Association of Canada.

He's worked in editorial photography for numerous agencies, networks, newspapers and magazines and in human development, for several NGO's, multilateral organizations and foreign governments. Wendell's contracts have taken him to 50 countries that include Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Israel, India, Madagascar, Burma, Greenland, Peru, East, West and North Africa.

Assignments have included landmine clearing, AIDS, renewable resource energy, peer lending/micro credit programs, immigration, vocational training in slums, refugee camps, disaster relief, immigration, vocational training in slums, innovations in agriculture, water/sanitation stories, food security, environment, transportation, malaria, war orphans, women's issues, addictions, NATO imbeds, Inuit technology, and over one hundred health related stories.

Polar Greenland.

Traveling with NATO in Kosovo.