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Finbarr O'Reilly
Finbarr O'Reilly (2022)
Born1971
Swansea, United Kingdom
NationalityCanadian
British
Known forAuthor and photographer
AwardsWorld Press Photo of the Year 2005

Finbarr O'Reilly (born 1971) is a Welsh-born Irish/Canadian[1] independent photographer. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times.

O'Reilly won the 2019 World Press Photo First Place prize in the Portraits category, and also won the World Press Photo of the Year award of the 49th annual World Press Photo contest in 2006.

O'Reilly is co-author of the joint memoir with U.S. Marine Sgt. Thomas James Brennan, Shooting Ghosts (2017).

Early life and education

O'Reilly was born in Swansea in South Wales and raised in Dublin, Ireland until he moved with his family to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at the age of nine.[1]

He attended high school at Vancouver College.

Life and work

After high school he became a Toronto-based arts correspondent for The Globe and Mail and then spent three years writing pop culture and entertainment pieces for the National Post.[2]

He joined Reuters as a freelance correspondent based in Kinshasa, Congo in 2001[3] before moving to Kigali, Rwanda, where he became the Reuters Africa Great Lakes correspondent from 2003 to 2005.

In 2003 he co-produced The Ghosts of Lomako, a documentary about conservation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the same year he co-directed the documentary, The Digital Divide about technology in the developing world.[1]

He turned to photography in 2005 and became the Reuters Chief Photographer for West and Central Africa, based in Dakar, Senegal from 2005 until 2012, when he took a sabbatical year off to study psychology as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.

A color image by O'Reilly won World Press Photo of the Year 2005. The picture shows the emaciated fingers of a one-year-old child pressed against the lips of his mother at an emergency feeding clinic in Niger.

Upon returning to Reuters, he was posted to Tel Aviv as a Senior Photographer for Israel and the Palestinian Territories.

He is one of several journalists included in Under Fire: The Psychological Cost of Covering War, a documentary shortlisted for a 2012 Academy Award.[4] The film won a 2013 Peabody Award.[5]

As a 2012/13 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, O'Reilly spent an academic year researching psychology with a focus on conflict-induced trauma. He was a Ochberg Fellow at the DART center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in New York in 2014; a Yale World Fellow in 2015; a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 2016; and a writer in residence at the Carey Institute for Global Good, also in 2016.

He covered the 2014 Gaza War from inside the Strip before leaving Reuters in 2015 to write Shooting Ghosts. Shooting Ghosts (2017) is a joint memoir with Sgt. Thomas James Brennan, a U.S. Marine who he had met during one of his assignments in Afghanistan. Their unlikely friendship helped heal them after war.

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b c Finbarr O’Reilly Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine Reportage Atri Festival. Retrieved on 31 December 2010
  2. ^ "World Press Photo". World Press Photo. Retrieved 2010-12-03.
  3. ^ "Featured photojournalist: Finbarr O'Reilly | Art and design". The Guardian. 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2010-12-03.
  4. ^ Coons, Sean. "Documentary 'Under Fire' Shows That War Is Hell for Journalists". The Atlantic.
  5. ^ "Entertainment - CBC News". www.cbc.ca.
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