DONTEZ HENDERSON | PHOTOGRAPHY
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Photojournalism is the process of story telling using the medium of photography as your main story telling device. Come and see the stories that are told.
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“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” Don McCullin
MEET THE PHOTOGRAPHER
Dontez A. Henderson is an imaging specialist and photojournalist based in Springfield, VA. He is a contract photographer for The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Mr. Henderson has done assignments for CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Essence Magazine, The Washington Mystics, It's My Hair Magazine, Urban Freedom Magazine, among others.
Mr. Henderson graduated with a B.A. in English from Eastern Michigan University and studied for his M.A. at the Edmund A. Walsh, School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He's worked as a contract photographer with The National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2018 and is the owner of Definitive Arts Photography, established in 2012.
Some of Mr. Henderson most
notable accomplishments are features with CNN and the 1619: Project collaborating with The National Museum of African American History and The New York Times, covering The Unity March on Washington, The Jones Act and The US Senate, a variety of news events and most recently The Freedom March on Juneteenth, 2020 and The National Action Network's March on Washington, 2020.
