I am very pleased to announce our FIFTH and final speaker for this years NPAC conference in Calgary on April 26-27.
Michael S. WilliamsonStaff Photographer — Washington Post Michael S. Williamson is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning photographer who joined The Washington Post in 1993 after working for the Sacramento Bee from 1975-1991. He taught at Western Kentucky University (1991-93). Williamson has covered a variety of global events in the last 35 years, including the wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua; the Philippine revolution; strife in the Middle East; the Gulf War; and conflicts in Africa,The Balkans and Asia.
Williamson was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in several foster homes before settling with a permanent foster family in his early teens. In 1994, he won the National Press Photographers Association’s Crystal Eagle Award, which recognizes photography that has had a documented effect on society. Williamson won for a 15-year project on homelessness in America. The N.P.P.A. named Williamson the Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 1995. In 2000, he shared the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for coverage of the conflict in Kosovo and was named White House News Photographer's Association's Photographer of the Year.
His most recent book with Maharidge is “Someplace Like America: Tales From the New Great Depression.” The book is a result of a 30-year collaboration documenting the plight of jobless, homeless and workingAmericans. It was released in June of 2011 by The University of California Press with a forward written by Bruce Springsteen.
He lives in Maryland with his teenage daughters, Sophia and Valerie
Along with the other presenters, Michael will be on hand to review portfolios.
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