bio

Victor J. Blue is a San Francisco bay area based photojournalist. He has photographed in Central America since 2001, concentrating on social conflict in Guatemala, as well as photographing stories in Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras. In the US he has documented news stories and social issues including Hurricane Katrina and its legacy in New Orleans, prison overcrowding in California, and the lives of illegal immigrants. Through documentary photography he seeks to put a face on the defining issues of our day, and communicate something universal from the particular of individual lives and struggles.

His photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, Le Monde, Mother Jones, The San Francisco Chronicle and on The Discovery Channel. He has shown photographs in solo exhibitions and in group shows at the Powerhouse Gallery in New York City, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Juice Design, 111 Minna Gallery, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In 2008 he was awarded a first place award in the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism contest, and First, Second, and Award of Excellence awards in the San Francisco Bay Area Press Photographers Association News Photography competition. He was a member of the team that won the Fairbanks Award for Public Service Reporting from the Associated Press News Executives Council. He also won second place awards in the California Newspaper Publishers Association competition for Spot news and Feature Photography. He is currently a staff photographer at The Record in Stockton CA.

all images ©2008 by Victor J Blue
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