About Mary

Before beginning her freelance career, Mary F. Calvert worked as a staff photographer for eleven years on the award-winning staff of The Washington Times. While the bulk of her daily assignments focused on covering Congress, political campaigns and The White House, Mary’s true photographic calling was, and continues to be, documenting the humanitarian struggle of women around the world. She was a finalist in 2007 for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for documenting the societal stigma of sub-Sahara women afflicted with obstetric fistula after childbirth.

In 2008, Mary was honored with the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in International Photography for her project, “Lost Daughters: Sex Selection in India”, chronicling the social and economic motivations for the widely prevalent practice of Indian doctors performing abortions of female fetuses.

Also in 2008, she was awarded the White House News Photographers Association Project Grant to document sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The resulting project being named as a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for “ …courageous work published in The Washington Times that vividly documents how rapes, by the tens of thousands, have become a weapon of war in Congo”.

Calvert believes that journalists have a duty to shine a light into the deepest recesses of the human experience and provide a mirror for society to examine itself. Exploring the plight of women and children worldwide as they struggle to secure for themselves the most basic human rights while enduring the effects of armed conflict is a subject that must be illuminated with conviction and consistency. She a true believer that the light cast by her labor is capable of affecting meaningful social change.

That belief and commitment to her craft has taken her from homeless encampments in Japan to war torn Africa and Afghanistan, always looking to shine a light in those dark recesses.

Before joining the staff of The Washington Times, Calvert spent nine years covering the Bay Area for The Oakland Tribune and The Hayward Daily Review.

This year, she will be helping young men and women find their path by teaching Intermediate photojournalism at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington D.C. In addition to being a guest faculty member of Momenta Workshops, the Western Kentucky University Mountain Workshops, the NPPA’s Flying Short Course, and the Eddie Adams Workshop, she has been a member of the faculty for the Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photographers Workshop in Ft. Meade for the last fourteen years.

She makes her home in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband Joseph M. Eddins, Jr. and 21-year-old daughter, Mary Stone Eddins.

A select list of Mary’s clients include The New York Times,  The Los Angeles Times,  AOL,  The New York Post,  Inside Counsel Magazine,  McClatchy-Tribune Photo Service, The International Herald Tribune, and  Medicine + Health Magazine, The George Washington University Medical Center.  She has been published all over the globe including Le Monde, De Groene Amsterdammer, iDNES, inmediaONE, Mother Jones, and The Christian Science Monitor.

Mary is represented exclusively by ZUMA Press.

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Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography, 2010 Finalist: Mary F. Calvert, freelance photojournalist, for her courageous work published in The Washington Times that vividly documents how rapes, by the tens of thousands, have become a weapon of war in Congo.

Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award, 2008 International Photo Winner: Mary F. Calvert, The Washington Times, “Lost Daughters: Sex Selection in India”

Mary F. Calvert is presented with the International Photographic Council, 2009 Leadership Award, at the United Nations in New York City

Mary F. Calvert is a recipient of the White House News Photographers Association, 2008 Project Grant for her story, Forgotten Victims: Rape as a Tool of War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography, 2007 Finalist: Mary F. Calvert of The Washington Times, for her haunting depiction of sub-Sahara African women afflicted with fistula after childbirth.

National Press Photographer’s Association, Best of Photojournalism 2007, Mary F. Calvert wins 2007 Photojournalist of the Year, Smaller Markets

Mary Calvert Finds Her Mission by Dirck Halstead, The Digital Journalist

Mary F. Calvert featured in DOUBLEtruck Magazine

The August issue of News Photographer magazine features a cover story on Mary F. Calvert, the 2007 Best Of Photojournalism Photojournalist of the Year for Smaller Markets

Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award, 1989 First Prize College Student: The Golden Gater of San Francisco State University for “Helpers in the War on AIDS”