[Leica] Peter Turnley

[rpalmier at depaul.edu (Robert Palmieri)]

The following post appeared here yesterday:



>Dear friends-

>I would like to share with you some very exciting  news. I've been
offered a 
>one
>year, renewable agreement with Harpers  Magazine, to create 4 major 8
page
>photo-essays for the magazine during the  next year. I will be listed
on the
>masthead as a contributing editor and most  importantly the philosophy
behind
>this new agreement is that I will author my  own visual stories that
will be
>given very prominent display quarterly in a  magazine with a long and
rich
>tradition of publishing excellent writing and  journalism. I think this
marks
>not only a very exciting opportunity for me,  but also a wonderful
>development for photojournalism and for the use of  visual storytelling
in
>magazine journalism. Please read more about this news  in an article
that has
j>ust been published today on the NPPA.org  site:

http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2004/07/turnley_photo_essays_in_har
pers.html

>I  look forward to your seeing the first photo-essay that will appear
in  the
>August issue of Harpers Magazine which will speak visually to a  very
>important theme in world affairs today, in a way that I think has not 
been
>seen or treated prominently before.

>My best. Peter  Turnley

>peterturnley.com



Damn good to hear about this, I say...

Bob Palmieri