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Heidi Levine is a prize–winning American photojournalist, currently on assignment for The Washington Post in Ukraine. She has spent much of her career covering the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Early life and education

Levine was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father was passionate about photography, and bought Levine her first camera; they would walk around Boston taking pictures. Her first interest in the field was to photograph under-privileged areas of Boston and New York. At the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst, she was the school paper photographer. During a break she went to Israel to work for six weeks at a kibbutz. While there she applied to the Associated Press and received a job offer. Figuring that working as a photojournalist would be educationally better than college journalism classes, she took the offer, and in 1983 started her photojournalism career in Israel as a staffer.

Career

Working at A.P. in Israel gave her experience in many facets of the field, including editing, lab activities, and interacting with subscribers. She reports difficulty breaking into the field of photojournalism as a woman, describing it as a "boys club." In 1991 she joined the Sipa Press Photo Agency. Based in Israel, most of her coverage has been the violence in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. She has covered conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Kosovo, Lebanon and Afghanistan on assignment; and, female feticide in India, Covid, and the Syrian refugee crisis, among others. In 2022, she went to Ukraine on assignment for the Washington Post. Her pictures have been published in many outlets, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Stern, National Geographic, Paris Match, L'Express, Newsweek, Time, The New York Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, Forbes Magazine, and The Globe and Mail.

Awards

1997: First prize at the Festival International du Scoop et du Journalism in Angers, France, for her work in Hebron.

2015: Bayeux Award for war correspondents, for her photo series titled "Healing and Resilience in Gaza"

2O15: Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award, for her work in Gaza

2023: International Women's Media Foundation award for courage in journalism, for her work in Ukraine

Personal

Levine lives in Jerusalem and has three children. She lives in a mixed neighborhood to expose her children to people of different backgrounds. Her work away from home and in danger zones has led to some disappointments among her children, family and friends. She has had to make compromises that would not allow her "to be the best photographer wished to be."

References

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  1. ^ Burke, Pamela (2013-06-26). "Interview: Combat Photojournalist Heidi Levine On Covering Deadly War Zones". The Women's Eye. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  2. ^ "Heidi Levine - IWMF". www.iwmf.org. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  3. "Award-winner Heidi Levine's images of Gaza – in pictures". the Guardian. 2015-03-25. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  4. ^ "Heidi Levine, Award-winning Photojournalist" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  5. "Women of The Washington Post Reporting on Ukraine - IWMF". www.iwmf.org. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  6. "In photos: The war in Ukraine one month on".
  7. "'I could go on and on' Photojournalist Heidi Levine on what she saw in Bucha in the days after its liberation". Meduza. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  8. Antunes, Jose (2024-09-19). "Bayeux award for war correspondents is back for the 31st time". Seriously Photography. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  9. Roué, Damien (2015-10-13). "Heidi Levine remporte le Trophée Photo et le Prix du Public aux rencontres des correspondants de guerre à Bayeux". Phototrend (in French). Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  10. "Honoring the courage of women photojournalists". The Associated Press. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  11. "IWMF Announces 2023 Courage in Journalism Award Winners - IWMF". www.iwmf.org. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  12. AP. "Jerusalem photojournalist honored by media group". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  13. Burke, Pamela (2013-07-24). "INTERVIEW: Heidi Levine–War Photographer and Working Mom, Part TWO". The Women's Eye. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
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