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' was 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

2010- PDN 30

2010- PDN Photo Annual

2010- American Photography Annual

2009- FOAM Talent

2009- Santa Fe Project Competition- Honorable Mention

2008- Pulitzer Center Grant

2008 - World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass

2008 - 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).

Book

2nd Tour Hope I Don't Die (Photolucida, 2009)

Publications

The New York Times, The New York Time Magazine, Newsweek, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, New York, Fortune, Rolling Stone, The Fader, GEO, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Mother Jones, GOOD, Smithsonian, US News & World Report, Vanity Fair, Stern, ABC, ABCnews.com, BBC, CNN, Photo District News, Paris Match, La Liberation, Dagens Nyheter