Michael Kamber
Michael Kamber
American, born 1963
Michael Kamber was born in Maine in 1963. He attended Parsons School of Design and has worked as a freelance photojournalist and journalist since 1986.
He has covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, the Sudan, Cote D'Lvoire, Somalia, Haiti, Israel, the Congo and other countries. He has also worked as a writer for the New York Times, contributing numerous articles from Haiti, Iraq and West Africa.
His photos have been published in nearly every major news magazine in the United States and Europe, as well as in many newspapers.
Kamber is a former Revson Fellow at Columbia University. He is the winner of the Mike Berger Award, the Missouri School of Journalism's Lifestyle Award, the Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Award, American Photo Images of the Year and is a member of the New York Times team that won the 2003 Overseas Press Club award.
He has been nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize, twice for photography and once for reporting.
Kamber founded the Bronx Documentary Center in 2011, a non-profit gallery and educational space located in the heart of the South Bronx, where he currently resides.
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