Zachary Prong
Photographer and Videographer
Frontline Freelance Register
Toronto, ON, Canada
I'm a photojournalist currently based in Winnipeg, Canada. Clients have included Reuters, UNHCR, The Winnipeg Free Press and the Hamilton Spectator. I've worked in Egypt, Afghanistan and am now focusing on a long term documentary project on Indigenous Warriors in Canada. My work has been recognized by National Pictures of the Year, College Photographer of the Year and I was selected to participate in the 2016 Eddie Adams Workshop.
Prior to taking up photography I studied Anthropology and Contemporary Asian Studies at the University of Toronto, Coexistence in the Middle East at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Chinese Language at the Yunnan Normal University in China.
2017 - Photograph of the Year, 2016 - The Peter Brysky Memorial Award , 2016 - The Doug Wicken Award , 2016 - NPAC Student Photographer of the Year - H.M., 2016 - Bronze Medal - Feature Category
- Audio capture
- Audio editing
- Conflict
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Environment
- Interview
- Portrait
- Video capture
- Video editing
Indigenous Warriors
Zachary Prong
A smudging ceremony on Cote First Nation, Saskatchewan. Performed to cleanse a place of it's negative energy, it was organized by Stanley Cote, a member of the Winnipeg based First Nation Indigenous Warriors, and the American Indian Movement, a civil rights organization with chapters across North America. They travelled to Cote to lend support to a community that has been shaken by a string of suicides, violent deaths and overdoses in recent years. Half way through the walk, the group stopped at the place where Stanley's 19 year-old son Tre was accused of beating 24 year-old Freedom Gladue to death this past February. Some of Freedom's relatives held each other and sobbed as Stanley and others said a prayer.
Displaced by Fighting in Helmand
Zachary Prong
Khan Mohammed, a young boy who fled fighting in Sangin, Helmand Province shortly after his father was killed during fighting between Taliban and government forces in January of 2016. His family said Daesh (ISIS) were also participating in the fighting. Khan is now living in an IDP camp on the outskirts of Kabul. Afghan forces, backed by Western fighter planes and special forces, had been struggling to repel a Taliban siege in Sangin for weeks. More than 900 coalition soldiers were killed in Helmand during the 13 year Operation Enduring Freedom.
