Three-Time Pulitzer Photography Winner Barbara Davidson

Two weeks before Barbara Davidson, BFA 90, delivers the Homecoming Keynote Lecture presented by Resolute Forest Products at Concordia on September 14, she’s a bit occupied.

“I’m in an airport hangar waiting to get on a Blackhawk [helicopter] with the Texas National Guard,” she says matter-of-factly by phone. “We’re about to take off for Beaumont. I’ll be taking some aerials of the flooding and of some live rescues.”

For the past week the award-winning photojournalist has been in Houston to document the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, which first hit southern Texas in late August.

Davidson is a veteran of this type of disaster — she won the first of her three Pulitzer Prizes for her photos of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. So when the New York Times was looking for an experienced photojournalist to cover Harvey, Davidson was a natural choice.

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