LEICA LOUNGE with Patrick Farrell August 7, 2014

Leica Lounge with Photographer Patrick Farrell | Thurs, August 7, 2014 | 7pm - 8:30pm

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Leica Lounge is a lecture series hosted by Leica Store Miami which features presentations by local professional photographers. Held monthly, these free events are designed to create and inspire the local photography community through sharing images and exchanging ideas.

Join us in the Leica Lounge on August 7, 2014 with Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Patrick Farrell.

About Patrick:

Patrick Farrell has been a photographer at The Miami Herald since 1987. He is the recipient of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his photographs of the devastation in Haiti caused by a particularly brutal hurricane season.

Farrell has documented three decades of major news events, both locally and abroad, including the 1989 race riots in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood; political and civil unrest in Haiti during the 1994 military rule of that country; the 1999 earthquake in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre; childhood poverty in the Americas; and Hurricane Andrew’s 1992 path of destruction in South Florida, for which he and the entire Miami Herald staff won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

He was one of 10 journalists from around the world awarded Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships in 2010 from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. The fellowships are for mid-career journalists seeking to deepen their coverage of violence and traumatic events.

Farrell has won numerous awards for his coverage of Haiti, including the first place 2009 National Headliner Award for Photo Essay, two first place awards in 2008 from Pictures of the Year International, and a Feature Photography Award in 2008 from the Overseas Press Club. Farrell has been named Region Six Photographer of the Year twice (in 1992 and 1993) by the National Press Photographers Association.

Born in Miami (he’s the seventh child in a family of 12 kids), Farrell is a 1977 graduate of Christopher Columbus High School, an all-boys Catholic school in Miami. In 1981, he graduated from the University of Miami with a bachelor’s degree in television and film production. Farrell started his career working at two small South Florida dailies. He is married to Miami-based journalist Jodi Mailander Farrell and they have two young daughters.

To learn more about Patrick and his work, visit his website.

Refreshments will be served.