John H.White talks in a photojournalism class at Chicago Columbia College on October 5, 2017. Photo by Moe Zoyari[1]A photo taken by White, documenting African American life on Chicago's South Side in May 1974
When John H. White was nine years old, a teacher told him that he would grow up to work on a garbage truck because he was slow in math. At home, his father told him to grow up to be his best, to look for the best in others, and if he were to work on a garbage truck, fine—just be sure he's the driver. White has said that this was a turning point in his life.[2]
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White's father also played a pivotal role in his photography. At age 14, White's church burned down and his father asked him to take photos of the destruction and reconstruction. White now credits this first assignment with his focus on photo stories.
In 1973, White and three other African American photojournalists, Ovie Carter, Bob Black, and Howard Simmons, taught photography at the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago, where they also mounted an exhibit entitled "Through the Eyes of Blackness." This exhibit was brought back fifty years later and opened on September 16, 2023 at the same location.[4]
Street scene on 47th Street
White was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism in 1982 for his "consistently excellent work on a variety of subjects." He was selected as a photographer for the 1990 project Songs of My People.[5] White has also won three National Headliner Awards, was the first photographer inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame, was awarded the Chicago Press Photographer Association's Photographer of the Year award five times, and, in 1999, received the Chicago Medal of Merit.
Hal Buell, the former head of the Associated Press Photography Service, noted that White is one of the best photographers at capturing the everyday vignette.[6] White has published a book about Cardinal Bernardin, but he has yet to publish a book of his work outside the religious realm.
White has said that he lives by three words: faith, focus, flight. "I'm faithful to my purpose, my mission, my assignment, my work, my dreams. I stay focused on what I'm doing and what's important. And I keep in flight—I spread my wings and do it."[7]
^. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
^"Chicago Sun-Times Lays Off Entire Photography Staff". Associated Press via The Guardian. 30 May 2013. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
^"Chicago's trailblazing Black photojournalists discuss their work". Chicago Tribune. 2023-09-29. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
^University of Missouri. "Songs of My People: A Collection of Photographs from the Museum of Art and Archaeology." 2010-06-01 at the Wayback Machine Accessed August 7, 2009.
^Wayne Yang, Interview with Hal Buell, Former Head of the Associated Press Photography Service 2006-09-23 at the Wayback Machine.
^Bella, Peter. "John H. White Chicago legend". Retrieved June 3, 2013.
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