Finbarr O'Reilly
Finbarr O'Reilly (* 1971 in Swansea , Wales ) is a Canadian - British journalist , photographer , documentary filmmaker and author .
Life
Finbarr O'Reilly was born in Swansea, Welsh in 1971 and spent the first years of his life in Dublin, Ireland . When he was nine years old, his family settled in Vancouver , Canada .
After a one-year backpacking trip through Africa, he studied at the state Ryerson University in Toronto from 1994 .
He began his journalistic career as a cultural correspondent for the daily newspaper The Globe and Mail . He later moved to the National Post , where he wrote on pop culture , music and film topics for three years . In October 2001 he started working as a freelance writer for Reuters in Kinshasa , Congo . O'Reilly then became a Reuters correspondent for the African Great Lakes area in Kigali , Rwanda . Step by step, he added his own photos to his reports.
In 2003, O'Reilly was involved in the making of the documentaries The Ghosts of Lomako (as co-producer) and The Digital Divide (as co-director and cameraman). After a trip to Darfur in 2004 he turned to photography . He was then promoted to Reuters' chief photographer for West and Central Africa, where he coordinated photo reporting from 24 African countries.
As a war correspondent , he documented the Second Congo War , the civil war in Chad , the Darfur conflict and the civil war in Libya in 2011 . As an embedded journalist , he was repeatedly deployed in the war in Afghanistan between 2008 and 2011 . In Martyn Burke with a Peabody Award winning documentary Under Fire: Journalists in Combat (2011), which was devoted to the psychological consequences of war reporting, O'Reilly came alongside other war reporters as Chris Hedges , Jeremy Bowen and Christina Lamb to speak.
After the deaths of his colleagues Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros in Libya, O'Reilly took a year off to study psychology and trauma . Since his position in Africa was no longer filled after that, Reuters sent him to Israel in 2014 , which O'Reilly initially hoped would be a less psychologically demanding job. However, after Operation Protective Edge began , he had to report on the daily attacks from the Gaza Strip . For O'Reilly, this was "the most brutal and unequal war" he had ever reported. This made him doubt the usefulness of his work. A few weeks later he was fired by Reuters for financial reasons.
O'Reilly was a 2013 Harvard Nieman Fellow , 2014 Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University , 2015 Yale World Fellow at Yale University , 2016 MacDowell Colony Fellow and Writer in Residence at the Carey Institute for Global Good .
Together with the former US Marine Thomas James Brennan , who also had traumatic experiences in Afghanistan, O'Reilly wrote the non-fiction book Shooting Ghosts. A US Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War , which was published in August 2017 by Viking Books / Penguin Random House.
O'Reilly's return to photography was not easy; initially he photographed fashion shows in Senegal . In 2019, O'Reilly was selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee as the photographer of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Abiy Ahmed , and in this role he was responsible for the pictures at the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize exhibition.
He then spent several months in the outbreak area of the Ebola fever epidemic from 2018 to 2020 , producing the documentary Ebola In Congo for PBS Frontline about the doctors and nurses who are fighting the Ebola fever outbreak in the DR Congo .
During the COVID-19 pandemic , O'Reilly began his Congo in Conversation project to document the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the lives of the Congolese.
O'Reilly has received several awards for his work, including Press Photo of the Year for his picture of a mother with her child waiting for food in an emergency aid center in Tahoua during Niger's 2005 hunger crisis . In this context, O'Reilly pointed out several times that Ovie Carter's 1974 press photo had already documented the famine in the Sahel , but the situation of the people in Niger had not changed in the almost 30 years between these two pictures .
Finbarr O'Reilly lives again in Dublin after long stays abroad.
Awards (selection)
- 2005: World Press Photo - Press Photo of the Year
- 2005: National Press Photographers Association - Honorable Mention
- 2007: UNICEF Photo of the Year - Honorable Mention
- 2010: National Press Photographers Association - Portrait, 1st Place
- 2011: National Press Photographers Association - International News Story, 3rd Place
- 2019: World Press Photo - World Photo Contest, Portraits, Singles, 1st Prize
- 2020: Carmignac Photojournalism Award
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- with Thomas James Brennan: Shooting Ghosts. A US Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War. Viking Books / Penguin Random House, 2017, ISBN 978-0399562549 .
Web links
- Website finbarr-oreilly.com (English)
- Finbarr O'Reilly at World Press Photo (English)
- Finbarr O'Reilly at Instagram (English)
- Finbarr O'Reilly in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Finbarr O'Reilly . In: reportageatrifestival.it (archive version), accessed on April 19, 2020.
- ^ Sophie Chong: Ryerson Alumnus Finbarr O'Reilly chosen as this year's Nobel Peace Prize Photographer . In: ryerson.ca, accessed April 19, 2020.
- ^ Karon Liu: Rye grad shoots to top . In: theeyeopener.com of October 11, 2006.
- ↑ Finbarr O'Reilly . In: widerimage.reuters.com, accessed on April 19, 2020.
- ^ A b Carmignac Photojournalism Award 11th edition, Laureate: Finbarr O'Reilly . In: fondationcarmignac.com from April 2020.
- ↑ Featured photojournalist: Finbarr O'Reilly . In: theguardian.com of November 25, 2010.
- ↑ a b c Finbarr O'Reilly . In: dartcenter.org, accessed April 19, 2020.
- ^ Under Fire: Journalists in Combat (documentary channel hd) . In: peabodyawards.com, accessed April 19, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d Speech by Finbarr O'Reilly in The Power of Storytelling (video, 43:22 min, English) on December 22, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Joanne Laucius: Shooting Ghosts: Combat photographer Finbarr O'Reilly on trauma behind the lens . In: ottawacitizen.com of September 17, 2017.
- ↑ Shooting Ghosts: remembering war with Finbarr O'Reilly . In: carleton.ca, accessed April 19, 2020.
- ↑ Shooting Ghosts . In: shootingghosts.com, accessed April 19, 2020.
- ↑ Ingvill Bryn Rambøl: Finbarr O'Reilly is this years' Nobel Peace Prize photographer . In: nobelpeacecenter.org of October 17, 2019.
- ^ The Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition: Behind the scenes . In: youtube.com (video, 4:02 min, English) from January 30, 2020.
- ^ Congo in Conversation . In: congoinconversation.fondationcarmignac.com, accessed April 19, 2020.
- ↑ Finbarr O'Reilly - 2006 Photo Contest, World Press Photo of the Year . In: worldpressphoto.org, accessed April 19, 2020.
- ↑ UNICEF Photo of the Year 2007 . In: unicef.de, accessed on April 19, 2020.
- ↑ Dakar Fashion . In: worldpressphoto.org, accessed April 19, 2020.
- ↑ Carmignac Photojournalism Award - 11th edition . In: fondationcarmignac.com, accessed April 19, 2020.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | O'Reilly, Finbarr |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-Canadian journalist, photographer, documentary filmmaker and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Swansea , Wales , United Kingdom |