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:::::::Harry Mattison was born in New York City in 1948. For over twenty years he photographed in Central America, the Middle East, Europe and southern Africa. His work has appeared in most major American and European magazines including Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Paris Match, Double Take and Stern. In 1982, he received the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club for his work on El Salvador, and in 1983 he published, with Susan Meiselas, "El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers" (New York and London: Writers and Readers Cooperative). ::::::From 1988 to 1994 he worked in Sursum Corda, a public housing community in Washington DC. In 1994, the Harbor Gallery and William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Its Social Consequences, University of Massachusetts-Boston, mounted a twenty-year retrospective of his photography. He has lectured widely at universities both here an abroad and continues to photograph in Central America, most recently in Honduras, where he completed an archive of fifteen hundred images documenting human rights. He was awarded the Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1996. He is a 1999 recipient of a Washington DC Arts Council Grant, and is currently Visiting Artist at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore. He lives in Maryland with his wife, Carolyn, and son, Sean. Have a look at Harry's vita (resumé) (word format)

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