Thrilled to announce that Marcus Yam will be speaking at the NPAC annual conference. He will also be doing portfolio reviews at the Friday night trade show..
A little about Marcus:
Marcus is a Los Angeles Times staff photographer living in the beautiful City of Angels. Born and raised in tropical heat of Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, he is culturally and socially uninhibited, guided and inspired by Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken." At a
turning point, he left a career in Aerospace Engineering to pursue a photographic life.
His approach is deeply rooted in curiosity and persistence. He is interested in the of social issues and chaos that shape the human
experience. Currently, he's obsessed with covering wildfires across the Golden State.
In 2017, Marcus was named Picture of The Year International’s Newspaper Photographer Of The Year. In 2015, Marcus was part of the breaking news team that covered tragic San Bernardino, Calif. terrorist attacks in 2015, that earned a Pulitzer Prize in Breaking
News Reporting. In 2014, he was also part of The Seattle Times team that covered the deadly landslide in Oso, Washington that also earned a Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting.
From 2010 to 2013, Marcus was based in New York and worked as a regular contributor to The New York Times. His most notable work includes his contributions to The Times's three-part multimedia series, "Punched Out: The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer," and "A Year At War," a Times series that included his feature short film, "The Home Front," which have earned him numerous accolades, including an Emmy Award, a World Press Photo multimedia grand prize, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, a Pictures of the Year International Multimedia Award and a DART Award for Trauma Coverage.
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