David Hume Kennerly Blog
Kamala’s Short Run and My Shorter Coverage
Kamala’s Short Run and My Shorter Coverage The first time I photographed Kamala Harris she was a senator in the summer of 2019 running for president. Sen. Harris had announced her entry into the race a few months earlier on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. My friend and former Seinfeld writer Peter Mehlman (the one […] Read More
Nixon Resigns, Ford is President: 50 Years Ago, August 9, 1974
Nixon Resigns, Ford is President: 50 Years Ago, August 9, 1974 On August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon sat behind his desk in the Oval Office waiting to go on live television. He was about to announce that he would be resigning from the presidency the next day. He was the first and last President […] Read More
Kennerly named a trustee of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
Kennerly named a trustee of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust It’s my great honor to be named as the seventh trustee of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust that was founded by its first trustee Ansel Adams in1976. We are the keepers of the Ansel flame and defenders of his legacy and copyright. The […] Read More
Sandra Day O’Connor: A Remembrance
In 1996 when son Byron was twelve years old, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor gave him a tour of the U.S. Supreme Court building. He had first visited her there when he was three months old, but of course had no recollection of that. This encounter, on the other hand, was one he will always remember. […] Read More
The Image That Will Live in Infamy
Former President Donald Trump’s police booking mugshot, to steal a quote from FDR, is an image that “will live in infamy.” It will end up being the most published photo ever taken. Unfortunately for him it will also be how he will be remembered for eternity. His short-term political gain will be a long-term disaster. […] Read More
Frederick C. Weyand, Compassionate General
David Hume Kennerly remarks at the Gen Frederick C. Weyand U.S. Army Pacific HQ Building dedication Ft. Shafter, Hawaii, August 11, 2023 I would be remiss if I didn’t note that General Charles Flynn, and General Fred Weyand had a couple of things in common. They both commanded the 25th Infantry Division 50 years apart […] Read More
The Blast
Sixty three years ago, on August 7, 1959, I was 12 years old and something really bad happened in my sleepy little lumber town. Around one a.m. in the wee hours of a sweltering summer night the big siren over the fire station five blocks away from our house went off and woke me up. […] Read More
Robert F. Kennedy: The Man Who Changed My Life
In 1966 I was a 19-year-old newbie staff photographer for the Oregon Journal, the state’s largest afternoon newspaper. One of my first big assignments was to photograph Sen. Robert Kennedy appearing in Portland. Kennedy was going to be the first national politician that I would lay eyes and my lens on. It was a visit […] Read More
The Third Lift
I recently received a nice note from Bill Garlinghouse, a retired Navy combat cameraman who wanted to share a story with me about how a passage that he read in my book Shooter in the early eighties helped him out on his first foray into combat. I reprint this with his permission, and follow it […] Read More