When Neal Ulevich shot photos of the Vietnam War he was working for the Associated Press, shooting photos that would be seen in newspapers across the United States the next day, but he also had history in mind as he shot those images. On Friday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. in Anthropology rm. 163 on the UNM campus, Ulevich will present a slide show of Vietnam photos and discuss the images, and the stories behind those images. His presentation is called, “A Photojournalist in Vietnam; Imaging for the Moment, Imaging for History.”
Ulevich won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for news photography for his images of a violent political confrontation in Bangkok, Thailand. He worked nearly two decades in Asia with the Associated Press before he returned to the United States to work in the phototechnology program. He retired in 2002 and now lives in Centennial, Colorado.
The Ulevich talk is part of a series of events at UNM titled “Vietnam: Voices and Visions Unfiltered." This public history of the Vietnam War, from all sides, through combat art, photography, personal correspondence, a speaker’s series, public panel discussions, film courses and more was put together by Brian McKinsey, a veteran of the Vietnam War now living in New Mexico.
Contact: Susan McKinsey, (505) 277-1989