David Hume Kennerly Blog
Creating an Archive and Thank You
I first met David Hume Kennerly in 1993. A year later, we were married in Hanoi, Vietnam on March 30, 1994. About two weeks after we met, David asked me to look at images he was considering including in his 1995 book, Photo Op. My dad and uncle were both photographers, so I was intrigued. […] Read More
Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
On March 26, 2019 an exhibition of my photos will open at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is the first-ever show of my time as President Ford’s chief White House photographer and is a vivid comparison between then and how things are now. If you are old enough to […] Read More
Jonestown, a Personal Recollection
Story and Photographs by David Hume Kennerly JONESTOWN — 1978: TIME cover by David Hume Kennerly Some anniversaries should be remembered, others you would rather forget. This one cuts both ways. Forty years ago on November 18, 1978, in a place carved out of a remote jungle in Guyana, over 900 people were murdered or […] Read More
David Hume Kennerly named University of Arizona’s First Presidential Scholar
Prolific political photographer David Hume Kennerly has been appointed as the first University of Arizona presidential scholar by President Robert Robbins, the school announced Tuesday. Kennerly won the Pulitzer Prize at 25 for his documentation of the Vietnam War and served as chief White House photographer for President Gerald Ford, among many other titles. The […] Read More
2016: A Campaign Like No Other
I have photographed every presidential campaign since 1968. Twelve of them. The only one I didn’t cover was the election of 1972 when I was in Vietnam photographing the war. [Click below to view my Pulitzer Prize Portfolio, which includes many photos from Vietnam] My fifty years of coverage doesn’t make me an expert on […] Read More
News from the David Hume Kennerly Archive
This month marks the two-year anniversary of our full-time push to turn David’s extraordinary collection of images documenting 50 years of American and world history and culture in to a living archive. My husband, David and I, made the commitment in May of 2015 to focus our full attention and resources to this mammoth project. […] Read More
Introduction of Kennerly Archive Project Archivist, Randa Cardwell
Progress Report from the Kennerly Archive We are so fortunate to have been able to bring Randa Cardwell on to the Kennerly Archive team last year – a team that now numbers three, counting Rebecca, Randa and myself. Randa graduated from UCLA with a Masters in Library and Information Sciences, with a subspecialty in digital […] Read More
Excited to see some of my creative work on display at Getty Images — even in an election year!
The World Squared: A quirky little series looking at the world through the iPhone lens. View the collection on Getty Images: http://www.gettyimages.com/search/sets/yc_U48dMbU29embxmvICkQ#license
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It Started With A Flood In The Basement
(image above is not the Kennerlys, but illustrate the dilemma) Most photo collections don’t start with a flood; they end that way. And, of course, the David Hume Kennerly collection didn’t actually start with the flood, but my role in it did. At the time of the flood, David and I had been married for less […] Read More