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Stan Honda

Agence France-Presse staff photographer based in New York city, covering news and sports for the French news agency.

Past stories:

  • 2005: Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma; world swim championships; Michael Jackson trial
  • 2004: Iraq; New Hampshire presidential primary; Reagan funeral; Democratic National Convention 2003: Iraq
  • 2001: World Trade Center - Sept.11
Mr. Honda has lived in New York since 1989, worked previously for Newsday in New York. He has also worked for the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune in San Diego, Calif. He was born in San Diego.

The iconic images of dazed, dust-enveloped victims that riveted public attention from the pages and covers of national publications following the attack on the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001, were the extraordinary work of veteran photojournalist Stan Honda. The photographer’s own commentary about working only a few blocks from Ground Zero during that tragic event will accompany the projections of these haunting, unforgettable images that one media commentator observed, “put a face on the human witness and survivor stories.”

Mr. Honda has compiled his works into Eyewitness. Also included are photographs taken by Honda on his visits to nine of the camp sites where Japanese Americans were confined during World War II. (Honda’s own parents were incarcerated at Poston, Arizona.) The juxtaposition of these images poignantly reminds viewers of the parallels between the treatment of Arab Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 and the experiences of Japanese Americans in 1941.

Honda, a sansei, is currently a staff photographer for Agence France-Presse, an international wire service based in New York.