Biography - Wendell Phillips
Global assignments

Vancouver Based Wendell Phillips began his photojournalism career as a staff news photographer in 1981. He's since earned over 20 Picture of the Year awards in categories of news, feature, sports, pictorial and photo essay. He was voted Canada's New Photographer of Year in 1988 and nominated Canadian Photojournalist of the Year in 2007 and 2009. After 15 years in newspapers and television news Phillips makes his living with international media and numerous global agency photo departments. His images have appeared in over a hundred publications and networks that include BBC World News, New York Times, South China Morning Post and Time Magazine. In 2006 his international AIDS work was exhibited at United Nations in New York City. In 2009 he received the International Understanding through Photography Award by the Photographic Society of America for outstanding contributions to photography, lecturing and publications. In 2007 and 2008 he won National Magazine Awards in photo essay categories (Toronto, Canada)
Wendell has been assigned and flown, to five continents making pictures in over 60 countries. He's covered war zones, natural disasters, world leaders, professional sport, everyday life and natural wonder. Assignments have included deployment into Haiti a week after the earthquake, refugee camps in Iraq, stories from Kabul, Afghanistan, Beirut, Lebanon, Palestinian territories, NATO patrols in Kosovo, floating hospital of Bangladesh, Prisons of Kathmandu, Nepal, post tsunami work in Banda Aceh, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, Burmese Karen refugee camps, Narwhal hunters of Polar Greenland, Tibetan refugee camps, Sakalava Tribes of Madagascar, Tuareg faith healers of the Sahara Desert, Muslim Uyghur's of Xinjiang China, United Nations contracts in India, war zones of Nicaragua (1986&1988) landmine clearing in Cambodia, Human development work in East Africa, Indigenous wrestlers of Bolivia, Sheep farmers of the Dinaric Alps in Bosnia and other features from Transylvania, Peru, Macedonia, Cuba, Jordan, Ethiopia, Serbia Montenegro, Egypt, Turkey, Jamaica, Unite Arab Emirates to name a few.
Other assignments include the Olympic Games, National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, six Presidents and as many Prime Ministers.
Awards
- 1988 Canada’s News Photographer of the Year (Eastern Canadian News Photographers Association & Western Canadian News Photographers Association)
- 2007 Nominee Canadian News Photographer of the Year (News Photographers Association of Canada
- 2009 Nominee Canadian News Photographer of the Year (News Photographers Association of Canada
- 2008 International Understanding Through Photography Award Photographic Society of America
- 2007 National Magazine Awards (Canada) Gold Medal (Best Magazine Photojournalism/ Photo Essay)
- 2008 National Magazine Awards (Canada) Silver Medal (Best Words and Picture category)- 2
- 2008 National Magazine Awards (Canada) Nominated (Best Magazine Photojournalism/ Photo Essay)
- 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 NPPA's Best of Photojournalism (HM Portrait category)
- 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
- 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)
- Photographic Society of America/ National Conference (Charleston, South Carolina 2010)
- New England Photography Association Annual Conference (Amherst, Massachusetts 2010)
- 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, 2003 & 2005 )
- Photographic Society of America/ National Conference ( West Yellowstone, Wyoming 2009)
- University of British Columbia ( 2006 )
- Western Canadian Magazine Awards ( Vancouver - 2008)
- Manitoba Council for International Cooperation ( Winnipeg, Manitoba - 2006 )
- Eastern Canadian News Photographers Association ( Toronto - 2005 & 2007 )
- Western Canadian News Photographers Association - Annual conference ( Vancouver - 2007 )
- Western Canadian News Photographers Association - Annual conference ( Edmonton -1988 )
- Western Canadian News Photographers Association - Annual conference ( Calgary - 2003 )
- Mountain Equipment Co-op / National AGM ( Vancouver -2001 )
- Assiniboine Community College / Journalism Program ( Manitoba - 2005 )
- Canadian Red Cross ( Ottawa, Ontario - 2006 )
- Capsule College/Federation of Women (CFUW), Okanagan College (Vernon, British Columbia)
- United Church of Canada / Annual AGM (Lindsay, Ontario)
- Coors National Outdoor Show. B.C. Place (Vancouver, British Columbia)
- Marquis Project at Brandon University ( Brandon, Manitoba)
- Okanagan Photographic Arts Workshop ( Kelowna, British Columbia)
- Perth Camera Club ( Perth, Ontario)
- Okanagan College ESL program (Kelowna, British Columbia)
- West Coast Sea Kayak Symposium ( Port Townsend, Washington)
- Florida Sea Kayak Symposium ( Fort Myers, Florida)
- Euro Pacific Resorts ( Manila, Philippines)
- Philosophers Cafe / Okanagan Jewish Community Center
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Polar Greenland.
Traveling with NATO in Kosovo.
