Throughout her career, Barbara Davidson has focused her photojournalism lens on people attempting to maintain their dignity in the face of uncertainty in conflict zones and environmental disasters, with a particular focus on women and children trapped in a culture of American gun violence. She honed her story-telling approach, through multiple assignments over two decades across 58 countries, covering war, humanitarian crisis, and the human condition for the Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, and The Washington Times. Davidson is a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy award-winning photojournalist and twice named International Photographer of the Year by Pictures of the Year international (POYi). In 2020 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent the year traveling across the U.S. making portraits of gunshot survivors using a traditional 8×10 film camera. Born in Montreal, Canada, to Irish immigrant parents, Davidson is based in Los Angeles.
