William "Bill" Foley is an American photojournalist whose work has been recognized by several national and international awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the International Press Freedom Award. He has worked in assignments in 47 countries, with a special focus in the Middle East, and is currently teaching in the field of art (photography).
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Career photojournalist
After finishing his studies at Indiana University in 1978, Foley left Indiana and took a one-way flight for $ 99 to Amsterdam, where he began touring Europe. In London, he meets photo editor Horst Faas, then head of the Associated Press (AP) photo for the Middle East and Europe. Faas sent Foley on assignment to Egypt, where he worked for the next few years, mainly to cover president Anwar Sadat. Foley was present at a military march 6 October 1981 where Sadat was killed, and photographed him shortly before his death, calling the photo "Last Smile".
At Sabra and the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon in September 1982, Foley shot "a series of images of survivors and survivors of the Sabra and Shatila massacre", with which he and AP won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. He then describes the scene he found upon entering the camp after the departure of the Christian militia who had guarded the gates:
Nothing moves. In places where I have many friends, and hundreds of photos, there are many things, but never silence. Usually, kids scream and play, women talk, barking dogs, honking car horns... but, on this morning, all calm down. I was surrounded by what pile, at first glance, looked like garbage, but when my brain started working, I realized it was a pile of dead bodies. The stench is everywhere, as many of those killed have been dead for over 24 hours, in September.
From 1984 to 1990, he worked as a contract photographer for Time, covering news including the Palestinian Intifada, Desert Shield Operations, Iran-Iraq War, and Nelson Mandela's first visit to New York City. He has also undertaken photography projects for New York-based Children's Aid Institutions and Save the Children based in the UK.
For his efforts to free the Hezbollah hostage and his Beirut AP colleague Terry A. Anderson, Foley received one of the first International Press Awards of the Committee to Protect Journalists in 1991, along with his wife Cary Vaughan.
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Academic career
She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Photography at Marian University in Indianapolis. He also taught for five years as a professor at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
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