Finbarr O'Reilly
| Finbarr O'Reilly | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 Swansea |
| Nationality |
Canadian British |
| Known for | Author and Photographer |
| Awards | World Press Photo of the Year 2005 |
Finbarr O’Reilly (born 1971 Swansea) is a British/Canadian photographer, and the co-author with Sgt. Thomas James Brennan of Shooting Ghosts, a joint memoir by a conflict photographer and U.S. Marine whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls (Viking/Penguin/Random House, August 2017). O'Reilly won the premier award of the 49th annual World Press Photo contest in 2006 as well as numerous top industry awards from Pictures of the Year International and the National Press Photographers Association. He has been a Harvard Nieman Fellow (2012-2013), a Yale World Fellow (2015) an Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University's Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma (2014), a MacDowell Colony Fellow (2016), and a writer in residence at the Carey Institute for Global Good (2016).
O’Reilly was born in Swansea in South Wales and raised in Dublin, Ireland until he moved with his family to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at the age of nine.
He was later a Toronto-based arts correspondent for The Globe and Mail and then spent three years writing pop culture and entertainment pieces for the National Post. He joined Reuters as a freelance correspondent based in Kinshasa, Congo in 2001 before moving to Kigali, Rwanda, where he became the Reuters Africa Great Lakes correspondent from 2003-2005. He turned to photography in 2005 and became the Reuters Chief Photographer for West and Central Africa, based in Dakar, Senegal from 2005 until 2012, when he took a sabbatical year off to study psychology as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. Upon returning to Reuters, he was posted to Tel Aviv in as a Senior Photographer for Israel and the Palestinian Territories. He covered the 2014 Gaza War from inside the Strip before leaving Reuters in 2015 to write Shooting Ghosts with Thomas James Brennan, a U.S. Marine who he had met during one of his assignments to Afghanistan.
He is one of several prominent journalists featured in Under Fire: The Psychological Cost of Covering War, a documentary short-listed for a 2012 Academy Award. The film won a 2013 Peabody Award
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