15 Facts About Peter Turnley

Peter Turnley is a street photographer who has lived in and photographed Paris since 1978.

Peter Turnley's photographs have been used on the cover of Newsweek more than forty times.

Peter Turnley is a graduate of the University of Michigan, the Sorbonne of Paris, and the Institut d'etudes politiques of Paris, one of the few American students ever to do so.

Peter Turnley has received honorary doctorates from the New School of Social Research in New York and University of St Francis and Ohio Wesleyan University.

Peter Turnley first began photographing in 1972 in his hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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In 1975, the Office of Economic Opportunity of the State of California hired Peter Turnley to produce a photographic documentary on poverty in California.

Peter Turnley began working as a printer at the photography lab, Picto.

Peter Turnley began working as the assistant to the photographer Robert Doisneau in 1981 and with Doisneau's introduction to Raymond Grosset, the director of the Rapho photo agency, Turnley became a member of Rapho, working alongside many of the photographers of the French school of humanist photography.

Peter Turnley became associated with the Black Star photo agency and was mentored by its director Howard Chapnick.

Peter Turnley has photographed world conflicts including the Gulf War, Bosnian War, Somali Civil War, Rwandan genocide, South Africa under apartheid, First Chechen War, Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Afghanistan, Kosovo War, and Iraq .

Peter Turnley witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989, Nelson Mandela's walk out of prison after 27 years incarceration, and the ensuing end of apartheid in South Africa.

Peter Turnley photographed the election and inauguration of President Barack Obama and produced a multimedia piece on this occasion for CNN.

In 2015, Peter Turnley was the first American artist since the Cuban revolution to be given a major exposition at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Havana.

Peter Turnley was an artist-in-residence at the Residential College of the University of Michigan during the spring semester of 2008.

Peter Turnley teaches workshops on street photography and the photo-essay in Paris, New York City, and Venice.