Peter Turnley

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Peter Turnley is an American photojournalist. Currently a contributing editor/photographer at Harper's and represented by Corbis, from 1984 till 2001 he was a contract photographer for Newsweek, where his photographs were featured on the cover more than 40 times.^[1]

Turnley has photographed world conflicts in the Balkans (Bosnia), Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iraq (2003), the Gulf War (1991), and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

His photographs frequently appear in international magazines such as Stern, Paris Match, Geo, Life, National Geographic, The Sunday Times, Le Figaro, Le Monde, and DoubleTake. He has published five books: Beijing Spring, Moments of Revolution, In Times of War and Peace, Parisians, and McClellan Street.^[2]

He has won numerous awards including the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad, numerous awards and citations from World Press Photo, and the Pictures of the Year competition of the University of Missouri.^{[citation needed]}

Peter and his twin brother, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer David C. Turnley, were the subjects of a biographical 60 Minutes piece, 'Double Exposure',^[3] which aired internationally at the time of their retrospective exhibition, 'In Times of War and Peace' at New York’s International Center of Photography in 1996.