Steve Northup

Steve Northup, NF ’74, is a former staff photographer for United Press International, The Washington Post, and Time magazine. This photograph, taken in 1972, is currently on display at the…

‘If it wasn’t for people like you, people over here would not know what was really going on.’

‘… I finally got to make some peaceful and quiet pictures.’

There is a small committee in Santa Fe that twice each year names three people as “Living Treasures.” The name, and to some extent the content, is based on a…

Images of war are raw, dirty, ugly, personal and disturbing. And they ought to be.

[This article originally appeared in the Autumn 1974 issue of Nieman Reports.]The media—and in particular newspapers—are taken to task by Edwin Newman in the October [1974] issue of The Atlantic…

I was in Alaska on a Time assignment on the building of the Trans-Alaska pipeline and had been working like a dog in terrible conditions for a few weeks. I…