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Peter van Agtmael (born 1981 in Washington, DC) is a documentary photographer based in New York. Since 2006 he has concentrated on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their consequences in the United States. He is a member of Magnum Photos. Van Agtmael's photo essays have been published in ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''Time'', ''The New Yorker'' and ''The Guardian''. He has published two books. His first, ''2nd Tour Hope I Don't Die'', was published by Photolucida as a prize for winning their Critical Mass Book Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate = 17 January 2015 )〕 He received a W. Eugene Smith Grant from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate = 16 January 2015 )〕 to complete his second book, ''Disco Night Sept. 11.'' He has twice received awards from World Press Photo,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate = 16 January 2015 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate = 16 January 2015 )〕 the Infinity Award for Young Photographer from the International Center of Photography〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate = 16 January 2015 )〕 and a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate = 16 January 2015 )〕 ==Life and work== Van Agtmael was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. He studied history at Yale,〔 graduating in 2003. He became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2008 and a member in 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate = 16 January 2015 )〕 After graduation he received a fellowship to live in China for a year and document the consequences of the Three Gorges Dam. He has covered HIV-positive refugees in South Africa;〔 the Asian tsunami in 2005;〔 humanitarian relief efforts after hurricance Katrina's effects on New Orleans in 2005〔 and after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the filming of the first season of TV series Treme on location in New Orleans in 2010;〔 the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010,〔 Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and its aftermath,〔 Nabi Salih and Halamish in the West Bank in 2013〔 and the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict〔 and its aftermath.〔 Since 2006 he has concentrated on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their consequences in the United States.〔 He first visited Iraq in 2006 at age 24 and has returned to Iraq and Afghanistan a number of times, embedded with US military troops.〔 Later he continued to investigate the effects of those wars within the US.〔 In 2007 his portfolio from Iraq and Afghanistan won the Monograph Award (softbound) in Photolucida's Critical Mass Book Award.〔〔 As part of the prize Photolucida published his first book, ''2nd Tour, Hope I Don’t Die''. With work made between January 2006 and December 2008, this "is a young photojournalist’s firsthand experience: the wars’ effects on him, on the soldiers and on the countries involved."〔 The 2012 W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography provided $30,000 to work on his second book,〔 ''Disco Night Sept. 11'', which "chronicles the lives of the soldiers he has met in the field and back home."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter van Agtmael」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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