Barbara Davidson, Los Angeles Times staff photographer
Barbara has been a staff photographer for the LA Times since 2007. Prior to LA, she worked at The Dallas Morning News, The Washington Times, and The Kitchener-Waterloo Record in Ontario, Canada.
She has covered conflicts and in-depth, issue-driven stories at home around the globe and remains committed to telling intimate stories. Barbara has documented humanitarian crisis brought on by war in Iraq, Afghanistan, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Israel, Gaza, and Bosnia. She documented the Tsunami disaster, Hurricane Katrina, and The China Earthquake. Her news feature assignments have also brought her to Yemen, Nigeria, and Rwanda.
Barbara won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography with seven fellow staff members for their body of work depicting the pain and chaos after Hurricane Katrina swallowed up New Orleans and Mississippi. Also in 2006, she was named Newspaper Photographer of The Year by the Pictures of The Year International Competition. In 2009 she was awarded the Visa d’Or Daily Press award for her coverage of the earthquake in China and was exhibited at the Visa Pour l’image festival in France as well. She was this years the 2010 recipient of The National Press Photographers Associations Cliff Edom’s “New America Award” and received Judges Recognition for her essay on the Navajo Nation in Arizona entitled “ Frozen Land, Forgotten People.”
Barbara was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography and Film Studies.