Bio

Peter van Agtmael (b. 1981) graduated from Yale University in 2003 with a degree in History. Following graduation, he spent a year in China on the Charles P. Howland fellowship photographing the effects of the Three Gorges Dam. He became a freelance photographer at the end of 2004.

Since the beginning of 2006, he has documented the consequences of America's Wars, at home and abroad. A monograph of the work, '2nd Tour Hope I Don't Die' will be published in 2009.

In 2008, he helped organize the exhibition and book Battlespace, a retrospective of unseen work from 22 photographers covering Iraq and Afghanistan.

He is represented by Magnum Photos.

Awards

2009- Santa Fe Project Competition- Honorable Mention

2008- Pulitzer Center Grant

2008 - World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass

2008 - Winner of Critical Mass Book Award

2008 - Luminous Landscape Grant

2007 - World Press Photo - 2nd Place General News Stories

2007 - Photographer of the Year, Joerg Colberg of Conscientious

2006 - 25 Under 25: Up and Coming American Photographers - Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (Book released June 2008 from powerHouse).

Publications

The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Fortune, Rolling Stone, The Fader, GEO, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Smithsonian Magazine, US News & World Report, Vanity Fair, Stern, ABC, ABCnews.com, CNN, Photo District News, Globus, La Liberation, Dagens Nyheter, Le Journal du Dimanche