page_title: David Hume Kennerly
section_title: Accomplishments
hierarchical_section_title: David Hume Kennerly / Early life / Accomplishments
caption_attribution_description: David Hume Kennerly at work at the White House in 1981
context_page_description: David Hume Kennerly is an American photographer. He won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his portfolio of photographs of the Vietnam War, Cambodia, East Pakistani refugees near Calcutta, and the Ali-Frazier fight in Madison Square Garden. He has photographed every American president since Lyndon B Johnson. He is the first Presidential Scholar at the University of Arizona.
context_section_description: Trustee, The Gerald R. Ford Foundation, (2008-)
  Contributing editor, NBC News (2006 – 2008)
  Contributing editor, Der Spiegel magazine (2008)
  Contributing editor, Newsweek Magazine (1996 to 2006)
  Personal photographer to President Gerald R. Ford, (1974–77)
  National Program Chair for Washington Mutual's, "Home of the Free Student Photojournalism Project")
  Contributing correspondent, ABC's Good Morning America Sunday (1996–98)
  Contributing photographer, George Magazine (1996–99)
  Executive Producer, Portraits of a Lady, HBO (2011)
  Co-Executive Producer, Profiles from the Front Line, ABC reality series with Jerry Bruckheimer and Bertram Van Munster (2003)
  Executive Producer and writer, Shooter, NBC Television Movie of the Week based on his book about Vietnam combat photographers (1988)
  Executive Producer, The Taking of Flight 847, NBC Movie of the Week (1989)
  AFI Directing Fellow, 1984–85
  Contract photographer, Time magazine (1973–74, 1977–90)
  Contributing photographer, Life magazine (1972, 1993–96)
  Staff photographer, United Press International (1967–72)
  Staff photographer, The Oregon Journal (1966–67)
  Staff photographer, The Oregonian (1967)
  Producer, Discovery Channel's four-hour documentary The Presidents' Gatekeepers about the White House Chiefs of Staff (2014)
  Executive Producer CBS/Showtime documentary The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs (2015)
  Contributing photographer, Politico Magazine (2015-2016)
  Member Canon Explorer of Light program (1995-)
  Contributing photographer, CNN, 2016 Election
caption: Kennerly at the White House in 1981
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