Ashley Gilbertson

Ashley Gilbertson (born 22 January 1978) is an Australian photographer. He is known for his images of the Iraq War and the effects of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on returning veterans and their families. Gilbertson is a member of VII Photo Agency.

Gilbertson in 2011

In 2004 Gilbertson won the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award from the Overseas Press Club for his photographic reportage on the Battle for Fallujah.

Early life and education

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Gilbertson started his career at thirteen taking pictures of skateboarders.[1] After graduating secondary school, he was mentored by Filipino photographer Emmanuel Santos,[1] and later Masao Endo in the Japanese highlands.

Career

While based in Australia, Gilbertson worked on socially driven photo essays including on drug addiction in Melbourne and war zones in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. In 1999 he photographed Kosovar refugees in Australia. For the next three years Gilbertson's work focused on refugee issues around the world.[2]

In 2002, Gilbertson travelled to the Kurdish enclave of northern Iraq. Shortly thereafter, President George W. Bush made a case for war in Iraq, and Gilbertson travelled back to cover the story at the beginning of 2003. His work was published widely. In 2004, The New York Times offered Gilberston and their senior writer, Dexter Filkins, an embed with the 1/8 Marines.[3] Gilbertson continued to cover Iraq on contract for The New York Times until 2008.[1] A photographic memoir of his time there entitled Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War was published in 2007.[4]

In March 2009, he became a member of the VII Photo Agency's VII Network, and in 2011 he became a full member.

Gilbertson's book Bedrooms of the Fallen (2014) consists of panoramic black and white photographs of the bedrooms left behind by 40 U.S., Canadian, and European servicemen and women—the number of soldiers in a platoon.[5]

Publications
  • 21 Days to Baghdad: Photos and Dispatches from the Battlefield. Time, 2003. ISBN 1-932273-12-3.
  • Witness Iraq: A War Journal. PowerHouse, 2003.
  • Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War. University of Chicago Press, 2007. ISBN 0-226-29325-4.
  • Bedrooms of the Fallen. University of Chicago Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-226-13511-3. With a foreword by Philip Gourevitch.

Awards

References
  1. Harrison, Dan (17 February 2008). "Eyes on cameraman with a conscience". The Age. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  2. Leigh Dicks, brett (21 November 2007). "Photographer Ashley Gilbertson Gets Personal in Iraq". Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  3. McCauley, Adam (20 December 2012). "Overexposed: A Photographer's War With PTSD". The Atlantic. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  4. Filkins, Dexter (18 November 2007). "In Frying Pan and Fire". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  5. Teicher, Jordan G. (3 July 2014). "Heartbreaking Photos of the Bedrooms of Fallen Soldiers". Slate. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  6. "CCP Exhibition Preview". Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  7. "Ashley Gilbertson Wins The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award For Coverage of Fallujah". National Press Photographers Association. Archived from the original on 8 October 2009. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  8. "Gilbertson receives National Magazine Award". The New York Times. 17 May 2011.
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