{{Short description|American photojournalist}} {{BLP sources|date=June 2015}} thumb|250px|John Stanmeyer, January 2016 '''John Stanmeyer''' (born March 1964), is an American photojournalist based in Otis, Massachusetts. He is one of the founders of VII Photo Agency. Stanmeyer has received the World Press Photo of the Year,<ref name="WP">[http://www.worldpressphoto.org/people/john-stanmeyer John Stanmeyer], worldpressphoto.org, retrieved 14 February 2014</ref> Robert Capa Gold Medal, Magazine Photographer of the Year from Pictures of the Year International,{{Citation needed|date=June 2015}} and a National Magazine Award for Photojournalism.{{Citation needed|date=June 2015}}
==Life and work== His career began at the ''Tampa Tribune'' in Tampa, Florida where he began working on international assignments traveling to various African and European countries and India. He then shifted his focus to freelance work on Asian and Middle-Eastern events. His work has centered on Asian and Middle-Eastern political and human rights issues for the past 11 years, and more recently on the environment and sustainability.
He has contributed to ''Time'' and National Geographic.{{Citation needed|date=June 2015}}
In 2016, along with Anush Babajanyan and Serra Akcan, he started ''Bridging Stories'', a photography training programme for Turks and Armenians to take and share pictures of their daily life on Instagram, in order to promote understanding between their peoples.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Building Bridges Between Turkey and Armenia|url=https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/building-bridges-people-to-people-between-turks-and-armenians/?_r=0|author=James Estrin|date=24 January 2017|accessdate=10 December 2017}}</ref>
== Book == * ''Island of the Spirits.'' Afterhours, 2010. {{ISBN|978-6029750713}}.
==Awards== *1999: Robert Capa Gold Medal for "The Killing of Bernardino Guterres in Dili, East Timor", SABA for ''Time''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-SJB-3496|title=A Photographer's View of Balinese Rituals|work=WSJ|last1=Seno|first1=Alexandra A.|date=20 December 2010|accessdate=2016-06-19|quote=Robert Capa Gold Medal award in 1999}}</ref> *2008: National Magazine Award for Photojournalism.{{Citation needed|date=June 2015}} *2013: World Press Photo of the Year from World Press Photo, Amsterdam, for a photograph of African migrants on the shore of Djibouti city at night.<ref name="WP" />
==See also== * Shahidul Alam * Jashim Salam
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== External links == {{commons category|John Stanmeyer}} * {{Official website|www.stanmeyer.com}} * [http://viiphoto.com/author/john-stanmeyer/ John Stanmeyer] at viiphoto.com * {{IMDb name|3039115}}
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