Wendell Phillips, Photojournalist

Biography - Wendell Phillips

Wendell Phillips

Vancouver based Wendell Phillips began his photojournalism career as a staff news photographer in 1981. He's since earned 29 Picture of the Year awards in Canada and the U.S. in addition to 3 National Magazine Awards. Phillips was Voted Canada's News Photographer of the Year in 1988 and nominated Canadian Photojournalist of the Year in 2007 and 2009. After several years 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, South China Morning Post, and Time Magazine. He's been assigned and flown to five continents making pictures in 70 countries. In 2006, his international AIDS work was exhibited at the United Nations in New York City. In 2009, Phillips received the International Understanding Through Photography Award from the Photographic Society of America for his photography and lectures.

Wendell Phillips has covered assignments in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Bosnia in addition to military imbeds with NATO in Kosovo and Sandinista Soldiers during the war in Nicaragua. Other work includes deployment in Port au Prince, Haiti days after the 2010 earthquake, Muslim Uyghur's of China's Xinjiang province, Prisons of Nepal, Tibetan refugee camps, floating hospitals of Bangladesh, Landmine clearing in Cambodia, post tsunami stories in Banda Ache, Indonesia, Burmese Karen refugee camps, Yaguas of the Amazon Basin, Ifugao’s of Northern Philippines, Surgeons of Sri Lanka, tribes of Madagascar and Southern Ethiopia, Inughuit narwhal hunters of Polar Greenland, Tuareg Nomads of Mali, Animals of the Serengeti, Palestinian camps of Jordan, Kibera slums of Nairobi, Cholita indigenous wrestlers of South America, the White House in Washington D.C. and stories from Egypt, Serbia, Macedonia, United Arab Emirates, Cuba, Turkey, Peru, Vietnam, Israel, Venezuela and India to name a few.

Phillips has covered six Presidents (in Africa, South America, Central America and the USA) seven Prime Ministers, Pope John Paul (in Rome) to assignments chronicling the Winter Olympic Games, National Hockey League, PGA and Major League Baseball.

Awards

NPAC - News Photographers Assocation of Canada (formerly WCNPA/ONPA) www.npac.ca
NPPA - National Press Photographers Association / Best of Photojournalism www.bop.nppa.org

Speaking engagements (Partial list of 150 venues)

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Polar Greenland.

Traveling with NATO in Kosovo.