Stephanie Sinclair talks about photojournalism in the Middle East
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Stephanie Sinclair, JM 1998, spoke with students in the Department of Journalism as part of the Hearst Visiting Professional program.
Sinclair, 32, graduated from the University of Florida with a BS in Journalism and an outside concentration in fine art photography. After college she was hired by the Chicago Tribune where she worked for five years. Following assignments to cover the war in Iraq, Stephanie left the Tribune and joined Corbis in New York to be based in the Middle East and work out of the region. She has since been published in Time, Newsweek, US News, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Stern, German Geo, Fortune, Marie Claire and other publications.
In her short career, she has earned several awards and scholarships including the Visa D’Or at the 2004 Visa Pour L’Image photography festival in France, a first place in World Press Photo and the FiftyCrows International Fund for Documentary Photography's 2004 Central Asia and Caucasus Grant for her work on women’s issues in Afghanistan. Stephanie has also earned several awards in the Pictures of the Year International annual competition including a first place for a story she did on courthouse weddings in Chicago. The Chicago Bar Association's Herman Kogan Meritorious Achievement Award 2000 was awarded to her for her involvement in a series that the Chicago Tribune produced on the failure of death penalty in Illinois and resulted in the governor to put a moratorium on capital punishment in the state. Stephanie was also part of the paper’s team that won the Pulitzer Prize for documentation of problems within the airline industry in 2000.
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