Author

Eli Reed

Eli Reed, a 1983 Nieman Fellow, has been a photojournalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin since 2005. His photography career started in 1970. Over the years, Reed, a member of Magnum Photo since 1988, photographed around the world for numerous publications, including The New York Times, National Geographic, Time and Life magazines. He has produced two photography books, “Beirut: City of Regrets” and “Black in America.” He was the recipient of the Lucie Foundation’s 2011 award for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Photography.

A Way to Understand the World

A Way to Understand the World

An Essay in Words and Photographs
December 15, 2011
Election Night in Chicago–Capturing the Moment

Election Night in Chicago–Capturing the Moment

“I couldn’t stop crying.” From one conversation to another, those were the words photojournalist Eli Reed heard most often from friends after the election of Barack Obama as President of…
December 15, 2008

Tracing Photographic Roots Brings Work Into Perspective

‘A good photograph to me is one that combines something of the past, the present, and the possible future.’
September 15, 2007

Two Sides of Courage

‘Only after I left the foreign battlefields and returned to the United States did I discover the quiet part of courage in what it is I try to do.’
June 15, 2006

Photojournalism Students Cover Hurricane Katrina in Their First Leap Into a Real-World Crisis

‘Mark told me he’d learned more in the two days he photographed the hurricane’s aftermath than in his previous two years in college.’
December 15, 2005

Being Receptive to the Unexpected

A photographer immerses himself in a community to tell its stories.
September 15, 2001
Indivisible: Eau Claire, South Carolina

Indivisible: Eau Claire, South Carolina

Scott Trent peers inside Monteith School, the oldest black school structure in South Carolina Eau Claire High School color guard practicing a routine Toliver’s Mane Event barber shop Parishioners at…
September 15, 2001