Twenty-five years ago in September 1993, I felt I needed a break from the day-to-day journalism in Manitoba. So I took a month’s leave of absence from the Winnipeg Free Press and went to Moscow to visit the communist superpower’s capital. I was looking forward to focusing my lenses on street photography.
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Montreal-based photojournalist, and NPAC member, David Himbert was arrested last week by Cuban police while he was working on a photo documentary in Havana. He was later released after Cuban authorities confiscated two memory cards and an external hard drive containing most of his images.
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(Thirty-five years ago, the Gimli Glider made international headlines after the Air Canada jet ran out of fuel and had to land with no engines and no electronic controls. Wayne Glowacki‘s photo showed the story to the world.)
I received a phone call at home late Saturday evening, July 23, 1983, from Winnipeg Free Press night photographer, Ken Gigliotti. He informed me that an Air Canada 767 jet had just made an emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba, on an abandoned military airstrip, an hour’s drive north of Winnipeg.
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David Himbert, photographe montréalais et membre du APPC, a remporté un Prix d’Argent dans la catégorie “Photojournalisme et essais photographiques” des 41es Prix du magazine canadien. Son essai intitulé Les Cubains et l’après-Fidel documente le peuple cubain lors des funérailles de Fidel Castro en 2016.
Montreal-based photographer and NPAC member David Himbert last week won a Silver Award in the “Photojournalism and Photo Essay” category of the 41st Annual National Magazine Awards. His essay titled Les Cubains et l’après-Fidel documents the Cuban people during Fidel Castro’s funeral in 2016.
Photojournalist of the Year – sponsored by The Canadian Press
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