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Danfung Dennis is a still photographer and documentary film maker.
Danfung Dennis is currently the CEO and Founder of Condition One, a video software company that combines advanced 3D graphics with high-resolution video to.

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Danfung Dennis

Still photographer and filmmaker

Danfung Dennis is a still photographer and documentary film maker. He graduated from the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. His images have been published in Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Le Figaro, Financial Times, Mother Jones, Der Spiegel, and The Wall Street Journal.^[1]

He won the Bayeux-Calvados Award For War Correspondents in 2010 and was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker magazine.^[2] He was also chosen as one of the 30 New and Emerging Photographers by Photo District News magazine.

He photographed and directed his first feature-length documentary on the war in Afghanistan, Hell and Back Again.^[2] The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and won both the World Cinema Jury Award and the World Cinema Cinematography Award. The film was nominated for a 2012 Academy Award for best feature documentary.^[3]

Danfung Dennis is currently

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Since 2006, Danfung Dennis has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His still photographs have been published in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Le Figaro Magazine, Financial Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Der Spiegel, and The Wall Street Journal.

PBS's Frontline opened its 2009 fall feature program, 'Obama's War' using Danfung Dennis's footage. The immersive nature of the footage prompted a flurry of comment and inquiry from the Pentagon, the White House, veterans groups, viewers and was nominated for a 2010 Emmy Award. In 2010, Danfung Dennis won the Bayeux-Calvados Award For War Correspondents, was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine and one of the 30 New and Emerging Photographers by PDN Magazine.Danfung Dennis directed and filmed his first feature length documentary on the war in Afghanistan, Hell and Back Again, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and won both the World Cinema Jury Award and the World Cinema Cinematography Award. The film was nominated for a

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Biography: Danfung Dennis

Danfung Dennis

Danfung Dennis was a freelance photojournalist who covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for Newsweek , Time , the New York Times , the Washington Post , the Guardian , Rolling Stone and the Wall Street Journal . His documentary film work earned him the Bayeux-Calvados Award For War Correspondents and an Academy Award nomination. He later became CEO and founder of immersive video software startup Condition One.

Dennis discusses what led him to pursue photojournalism.