Barbara Davidson is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times. She won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, and a National Emmy in multimedia storytelling, for her work on innocent victims trapped in the crossfire of deadly gang violence in Los Angeles. Her photographs were part of a staff entry by The Dallas Morning News that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for breaking-news photography, for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. In 2014, POYi awarded Davidson “Newspaper Photographer of the Year” for the second time, her earlier award bestowed in 2006.
Davidson remains committed to telling intimate stories about the human condition around the globe. She has documented humanitarian crises brought on by war in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Israel, and Gaza. She has traveled to some 50 countries on assignment. Davidson also curates the online photography column “reframed” for the Los Angeles Times. She was born and raised in Montreal, Canada.
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