Bio/CV

Roger M. Richards

Filmmaker-photographer-author Roger M. Richards' work has ranged from coverage of the White House in Washington, DC to conflict zones around the world, including the civil wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador, the US invasion of Panama, political upheaval in Haiti, and the disintegration of Yugoslavia, particularly the wars in Croatia and Bosnia and the 44 month siege of Sarajevo.

Richards was Senior Producer and Director of Photography with The Drew Carey Project at Reason TV from December 2007 to November 2009. Prior to that he was Multimedia Editor/Producer, photo editor and staff photographer for The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia from 2001 to 2007. He is a former Associated Press photo bureau chief in Bogotá, Colombia, and a staff photographer at the Washington Times in Washington, DC, from 1997-2000.

His television work has been broadcast on several networks, including ABC, NBC, FOX and the National Geographic Channel. His films have been shown at many film festivals, including winning a Best Short Documentary prize at the 2009 Oxford Film Festival for “Mississippi Drug War Blues: The case of Cory Maye”, which he co-directed with Paul Feine.

He is the recipient of numerous awards for photography and picture editing from the National Press Photographers’ Association, the White House News Photographers’ Association, Pictures of the Year International, American Society of Magazine Editors, Society of Newspaper Design, Society of Professional Journalists and the Virginia News Photographers Association. He was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, in 1990 and 2008. Richards was picture editor on the staff of the Virginian-Pilot when the newspaper won the Society of Newspaper Design's international award for World's Best Designed Newspaper in 2001.

He is the author of ‘Remember Sarajevo’, photographs and writings from the siege of Sarajevo (2003, Zone Zero Editions).

Roger M. Richards is currently a member of the International Expert Team of the Institute for the Research of Genocide Canada, focused on documenting and bringing to justice war criminals wanted for acts of genocide. He has been a member of the White House News Photographers Association since 1997.

FILMOGRAPHY

2011-'Building Peace on Desktops' (12 minutes) Co-Director-Cinematographer-Editor with Chris Tyree.

2010-'A Walk with Ghosts' (9 min 54 sec) Director-Cinematographer-Editor

2010-‘Reason Saves Cleveland’ (52 minutes) Cinematographer and Editor (Narrated by Drew Carey).

2008-‘The Wall: The Cost of Securing our Southern Border’ (10 min 44 sec) Co-Producer/Co-Director-Cinematographer-Editor (Narrated by Drew Carey).

2008-‘Mississippi Drug War Blues: The Case of Cory Maye’ (25 min.) Co-Producer/Co-Director-Cinematographer-Editor (Narrated by Drew Carey).

2007-‘My Favorite Child’ (14 minutes) Director-Cinematographer-Editor.

2007-‘Out of the Darkness of Suicide’ A series of 4 short films on the stigma and trauma of suicide on surviving family members. (Producer-Cinematographer-Editor).

2002-‘A Navy Family’ (6 minutes) Director-Cinematographer-Editor.

2000-‘Seven Lilies’ (9 minutes) Director-Cinematographer-Editor.

TELEVISION/COMMERCIAL CLIENTS

2011-'Band of Brothers in the Great Outdoors' for ABC News 'Nightline on Veterans Day (originally produced with Michael Kamber for Outward Bound for Veterans).

2010-Author Tom Clancy on his new book 'Dead or Alive' for Penguin Group USA.

PRINT PUBLICATION CREDITS (partial list)
TIME; Newsweek; US News and World Report; New York Times; Washington Post; Los Angeles Times; Miami Herald; USA Today; International Herald Tribune; GEO; Fortune; Forbes; Paris-Match; Stern; Le Figaro; Epoca; Sunday Times of London.

AWARDS-GRANTS (partial list)

2011-Winner, Telly Award for 'Building Peace on Desktops", co-directed with Chris Tyree.

2011-Finalist, Multimedia Package, American Society of Magazine Editors ‘Digital Ellie’ awards for New Media, for ‘Reason Saves Cleveland’.

2009-Winner, Documentary Short Film at the Oxford Film Festival; second place, Best Documentary at the Tupelo Film Festival; Award of Merit in Documentary Film ,the Accolade Competition--for the Reason.tv film ‘Mississippi Drug War Blues: The Case of Cory Maye’ (co-director Paul Feine)

2008-Pulitzer Prize nominee for Public Service and Explanatory Reporting, The Virginian-Pilot for ‘Out of the Darkness of Suicide’.

2003-1st place, Best Newspaper Front Page, National Press Photographer’s Association Pictures of the Year.

2000-Winner of White House News Photographers’ Association Annual Project Grant for videojournalism.

1990-Pulitzer Prize nominee for Feature Photography, the Miami Herald.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
'Remember Sarajevo’ Photographs and writing from the siege of Sarajevo by Roger Richards (2003, Zone Zero Editions).
Photographs featured in several books on the war in Bosnia, for example ‘Traumascapes’ by Maria Tumarkin, and with Marina Antic in ‘The Art of Truth-telling After Authoritarian Rule’.

MUSEUMS/EXHIBITIONS
(2009) Permanent exhibition of 24 photographs from the siege of Sarajevo and Srebrenica genocide on display at Memoria y Tolerancia holocaust and genocide memorial museum in Mexico City, Mexico.
Photographs in the permanent collection of the Chrysler Museum of Art.