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Barbara Davidson has been a staff photographer for The Los Angeles Times since 2007. Prior to LA, she worked at The Dallas Morning News, The Washington Times, and The Record in Ontario, Canada.
Davidson remains committed to telling intimate and underreported stories. She has documented humanitarian crisis brought on by war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Israel, and Gaza. She has documented famine in the horn of Africa, the Tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka, Hurricane Katrina, and The China Earthquake. Her news assignments have also brought her to Yemen, Nigeria, and Rwanda.
Davidson won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and a National Emmy for her story of innocent victims trapped in the crossfire of Los Angeles’s deadly gang violence. She also won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography with seven fellow staff members for their Hurricane Katrina coverage. That same year, the Pictures of The Year International Competition (POYI) named Davidson ‘Newspaper Photographer of The Year’. In 2010 Davidson was the recipient of The National Press Photographers Associations Cliff Edom’s “New America Award” for her “ Frozen Land, Forgotten People” Navajo Nation essay. In 2011 she received The Community Awareness Award, by POYi, for her coverage of victims of gang violence in Los Angeles County. Davidson was awarded the Visa d’Or Daily Press award in 2009, and had an exhibition at the Visa Pour l'image festival in Perpignan, France this year.
Ms. Davidson, both an Irish and Canadian citizen, was born and raised in Montreal, Canada, and graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography and Film Studies.
