DOD Annual Worldwide Military Photography Workshop
Jun
4
2010
The Department of Defense 18th Annual Worldwide Military Photography Workshop took place at Ft. George G. Meade in Ft. Meade, Maryland from June 6-June 12, 2010 and Mary celebrated her fourteenth year as a faculty member. The workshop brings together faculty and students from around the world and provides advanced instruction on how to communicate more effectively using the visual media of photojournalism. Thanks to Shane McCoy, Group 4 and the entire workshop family for a great week!
2010 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Feature Photography
May
3
2010
June 30 is the 50th anniversary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s independence from Belgium. The people of Congo had high hopes for their newly liberated country but those hopes have all but disappeared in the wake of a war that continues to bring death, rape and despair to its citizens. In 2008, I
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NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2010 Contest
Mar
25
2010
First Place Enterprise Picture Story (Small Markets) awarded for Mary’s story, “Congo’s War on Women, and Third Place Photojournalist of the Year, Smaller Markets in the National Press Photographers Association, Best of Photojournalism 2010 contest.
Mary F. Calvert is an award-winning photographer who travels the globe documenting a wide range of issues. A natural storyteller; she remains a true believer that the light cast by photojournalism is capable of affecting meaningful social change. It is that belief and commitment to her craft that has taken her from the glaciers of Greenland to the depths of war-torn Africa and Afghanistan, always looking to shine that light.