with Helen Whitney, James Efthimiades, Pete Hamill and more on Sep 11, 2003
with Richard Drew, David Handschuh, Thomas Hoepker and more on Oct 31, 2001
David Handschuh has been an award winning staff photographer at the “New York Daily News” for more than15 years and has been an adjunct professor of photojournalism at New York University since 1995. On Sept. 11, 2001, he rushed to the World Trade Center, where he photographed the crash of the second plane and the turmoil in the streets before he was seriously injured by falling debris. During months of recovery, Handschuh implemented several programs to document and address long term physical and mental health issues for journalists that may arise from working at Ground Zero. For that work he was honored as a “Fellow of the Society,” the highest honor bestowed by Sigma Delta Chi, the National Society of Professional Journalists.
In 1994 Handschuh co-authored the “National Media Guide for Emergency and Disaster Incidents”, which is in its third printing. He has been nominated three times for a Pulitzer Prize and has also received numerous awards for his photography. He is a past president of the 10,000-member National Press Photographers Association, a recipient of a Dart Center fellowship, and the creator of the Focus on Mentoring project, which puts digital cameras into the hands of inner city youth and encourages them to look at their world in a new way.
Source-Western Night Center http://www.wkconline.org/index.php/seminars/speakerpage/?sid=454
