Damon Winter - Photographs London Tuesday, November 23, 2021 | Phillips

Photographs

London Auction 23 November 2021

  • Provenance

    Donated by the artist

  • Catalogue Essay

    This photograph depicts a wounded Naval officer being shielded by soldiers in Kunduz, Afghanistan in 2010 and was selected as the cover image of the New York Times on 14 April 2021.

    A native New Yorker, Damon Winter (b.1985) has been a longtime staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times and then the New York Times. He has covered a broad range of stories, including conflicts in Israel and Afghanistan, 9/11 in New York, the Olympic Games, and feature stories in Vietnam, Cuba, Russia and India. Winter has won numerous awards, notably from World Press Photo. He was named the California Press Photographer of the year in 2006 and won a Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in 2009.

PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT THE IAN PARRY SCHOLARSHIP

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Damon Winter

Medivac, Afghanistan

2010
Archival pigment print, mounted.
Image: 152 x 229 cm (59 7/8 x 90 1/8 in.)
Frame: 161.3 x 238.2 cm (63 1/2 x 93 3/4 in.)
Signed in ink, printed title, date and number 2/2 on a Certificate of Authenticity accompanying the work.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for £5,040

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London Auction 23 November 2021