Jane Evelyn Atwood

Jane Evelyn Atwood

• Paris-based American photographer.

• Born in New York and has been living in Paris since 1971 • Works with subjects over long periods of time.

• Intrigued by people and the idea of exclusion.

• Seen as a photographer who has managed to penetrate worlds that most don’t know or ignore.

• Chose to spend 18 months photographing a regiment of the Foreign Legion and followed the soldiers to Beirut and Chad.

• Photographed a four-and-a-half-month story on the first person with AIDS in France to allow himself to be photographed for publication in the press.

• Did a four-year study of landmine victims in Cambodia, Angola, Kosovo, Mozambique and Afghanistan.

• Also covered news events such as the Kobe earthquake of 1995, the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001, and the Democratic National Convention in 2004.

Awards

W. Eugene Smith Award - 1980

Paris Match Grand Prix du Photojournalisme - 1990

Leica's Oskar Barnack Award - 1997

Alfred Eisenstaedt Award - 1998

Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College - 2005

Jane’s Tip

Knowing when not to take a picture is as important as knowing when to take the

picture.

Books by Jane

• 1980 - Nächtlicher Alltag (Daily Nightlife) - Mahnert Lueg Verlag, Munich, Germany.

• 1981 - Dialogues de Nuit - Éditions Jean-Jacques Pauvert/Ramsay, Paris, France.

• 1986 - Légionnaires - Éditions Hologramme, Neuilly, France.

• 1998 - Extérieur Nuit - PhotoPoche Société, Actes Sud, Arles, France.

• 2000 - Too Much Time, Women in Prison - Phaidon Press, Ltd., London, England. Trop de Peines, Femmes en Prison - Éditions Albin Michel, Paris, France.

• 2004 - Sentinelles de l’ombre - Éditions Le Seuil, Paris, France.