bio

Victor J. Blue is a Northern California based photojournalist. He has photographed in Central America since 2001, concentrating on social conflict in Guatemala, as well as photographing stories and completing assignments in Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, India and Afghanistan. In the US he has documented news stories and social issues including Hurricane Katrina and its legacy in New Orleans, prison overcrowding in California, and the lives of illegal immigrants. He worked as a staff photographer at The Record in Stockton CA, and is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Visual Communication at Ohio University. Through documentary photography he seeks to put a face on the defining issues of our day, and communicate something universal from the particular of individual lives and struggles.

His photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Mother Jones, The San Francisco Chronicle and on The Discovery 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, Juice Design, 111 Minna Gallery, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In 2010 his work in Afghanistan was honored in the Pictures of the Year International Competition, and he was the 2nd Place Photographer of the Year in the San Francisco Bay Area Press Photographers Association. In 2008 he was awarded a first place award in the NPPA Best of Photojournalism contest, and First, Second, and Award of Excellence awards in the SFBAPPA competition. He was a member of the team that won the Fairbanks Award for Public Service Reporting from the Associated Press News Executives Council, and was recognized with awards in the California Newspaper Publishers Association competition for Spot news and Feature Photography.

all images ©2008 by Victor J Blue
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