Biography - Wendell Phillips
This is a photo of me taken moments before covering Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure in the West African captial Bamako.
This is a picture of me living with Tuareg man known as Ismail Bin Mouhamad in Mali's Sahara Desert.
Vancouver (Canada) based photojournalist Wendell Phillips began his photojournalism career as a staff news photographer in 1981. He was voted Canada's News Photographer of the Year by the Western Canadian News Photographers Association and the Eastern Canadian News Photographers Association and earned 18 Picture of the Year awards. He's worked in editorial photography for numerous agencies, networks, newspapers and magazines and in human development, for several NGO's, multilateral organizations and foreign governments. Wendell's contracts have taken him to 50 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, South America and the Middle East.
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