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 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.

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, 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.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.