Since 2006, Danfung Dennis has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His still photographs have been published in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Le Figaro Magazine, Financial Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Der Spiegel, and The Wall Street Journal.
PBS’s Frontline opened its 2009 fall feature program, ‘Obama’s War’ using Danfung Dennis’s footage. The immersive nature of the footage prompted a flurry of comment and inquiry from the Pentagon, the White House, veterans groups, viewers and was nominated for a 2010 Emmy Award.
In 2010, Danfung Dennis won the Bayeux-Calvados Award For War Correspondents, was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine and one of the 30 New and Emerging Photographers by PDN Magazine.
Danfung Dennis directed and filmed his first feature length documentary on the war in Afghanistan, Hell and Back Again, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and won both the World Cinema Jury Award and the World Cinema Cinematography Award.
He is the founder of the immersive video startup Condition ONE.
AMERICA IN AFGHANISTAN
by Danfung Dennis. Afghanistan. 2008 – 2009. After eight years of war, the fighting in Afghanistan has reached it’s highest levels since the invasion in 2001. Swaths of the eastern and southern provinces are under strong influence of the insurgency. … Continue reading
AFGHAN LIFE
by Danfung Dennis. Afganistan. December 2008 – January 2009. Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world. The health and education systems are barely functional- the average life expectency is 44 years and the literacy rate is 28%. … Continue reading
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HELL AND BACK AGAIN BY DANFUNG DENNIS IN THEATERS
“Hell and back again” opens in theaters this Wednesday, October 5th in New York City. In 2009, U.S. Marines launched a major helicopter assault on a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. Within hours of being dropped deep behind enemy lines, … Continue reading