Wendell Phillips, Photojournalist

Biography - Wendell Phillips

Global assignments

Award

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

Speaking engagements (partial list)

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Polar Greenland.

Traveling with NATO in Kosovo.