Barbara Davidson

Photographer
Barbara Davidson

Barbara Davidson has been a staff photographer for The Los Angeles Times since 2007. Prior to LA, she worked at The Dallas Morning News, The Washington Times and The Record in Ontario, Canada.

Davidson has documented humanitarian crises brought on by war in Iraq, Afghanistan, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Israel and Gaza. She documented the Tsunami disaster, Hurricane Katrina and The China Earthquake. Her news assignments have also brought her to Yemen, Nigeria and Rwanda.

In 2006, Davidson was named Newspaper Photographer of The Year by the Pictures of The Year International Competition. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography with seven fellow staff members for their body of work depicting the pain and chaos after Hurricane Katrina. In 2009, she was awarded the Visa d’Or Daily Press award for her coverage of the earthquake in China and was exhibited at the Visa Pour l’image festival in France as well. She was last years recipient of The National Press Photographers Associations Cliff Edom’s New America Award and received Judges Recognition, in Pictures of The Year International (POYi), for her Frozen Land, Forgotten People Navajo Nation essay. In 2011, Davidson was awarded The Community Awareness Award by POYi for her coverage of victims of gang violence in Los Angeles County.

As of June 26, 2010

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Featured Photographs

  • Jessica Alvarado fixes her Quinceañera dress on a blood-stained sidewalk next to a memorial honoring tamale vendor Cosme Gonzaleza, who was robbed and killed in front of her Los Angeles home.
    Coming of Age
    Photo by: Barbara Davidson
  • Thomasina Nez, 35, gives Bobbi, 4, a bath in a tin basin in their dilapidated trailer on a Navajo reservation in Cameron, Arizona. Without running water, Nez must bathe her children in water hauled from 30 miles away and heated on the family’s wood stove. The Bennett Freeze ban, lifted officially in March 2009, prohibited some 8,000 Navajos living on 1.5-million acres of disputed land in Arizona from erecting or repairing their homes, including putting in water lines, unless approved by the neighboring Hopi. Consequently, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs says 77 percent of the homes in the area aren’t suitable to live in.
    Frozen Land, Forgotten People
    Photo by: Barbara Davidson
  • A torn American flag flies over a cemetery in Tuba, Arizona, where Thomasina Nez’s former partner and father to five of her children is buried. The Bennett Freeze ban, instituted in 1966, prohibited home and property improvements on land in Arizona that was disputed by the Navajo and Hopi tribes. The law left 1.5-million acres frozen in bureaucracy until it was reversed in March 2009.
    Frozen Land, Forgotten People
    Photo by: Barbara Davidson

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