UI grad David Guttenfelder (BA 93, Journalism/Anthro) featured during Oscars broadcast

The celebrated photojournalist was a photographer for the Daily Iowan as an undergrad
Thursday, February 25, 2016

 

 

University of Iowa alumnus and photojournalist David Guttenfelder is featured in an ad campaign by the website-building company Squarespace, to debut during the Academy Awards television broadcast on Sunday, February 28. Guttenfelder earned a BA degree from the UI in 1993 in journalism and anthropology, and was a photographer for the UI's Daily Iowan newspaper for three years as a student.

The cinematic, 30-second-long ad traces Guttenfelder's career from his childhood in Iowa to photographing wars embedded with combat troops. A longer version of the ad is above.

Guttenfelder's work has been featured in publications around the world. He is a National Geographic Society Fellow, and among many other awards, won the 2016 World Press Photo Award for a long-term project about North Korea. View his website here.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.