Victor Blue
New York, NY, USA
Victor J. Blue is a New York based photojournalist. He has photographed stories and completed assignments in Afghanistan, Syria, Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, India, and and has documented news stories and social issues across the United States. He worked as a staff photographer at The Record in Stockton CA, and holds a Masters Degree in Visual Communication from Ohio University.
His photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Harpers Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Sports Illustrated, USAToday, The LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The San Francisco Chronicle and on The Discovery Channel and The History Channel. He has shown photographs in solo exhibitions and in group shows at the Powerhouse Gallery in New York City, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and at 111 Minna Gallery and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. His work has been supported by grants from the NPPA and Ohio University. In 2012 and 2011, his project on his Grandfather was awarded in the Pictures of the Year International Competition. In both 2010 and 2011 his work in Afghanistan was honored in the Pictures of the Year International Competition. In 2008 he was awarded a first place award in the NPPA Best of Photojournalism contest, and was a member of the team that won the Fairbanks Award for Public Service Reporting from the Associated Press News Executives Council.
- Audio capture
- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Entertainment
- Environment
- Interview
- Landscape
- Medical
- Military embed
- Portrait
- Reporting
- RISC training
- Sports
- Video capture
