Racial Justice Fellows, 2005-2006

John L. White
Staff Photographer
South Florida Sun-Sentinal

John White is a staff photographer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and studied photojournalism and film at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After photography internships at the Ann Arbor News in Michigan and the Arizona Republic, he got his first staff photographer job at The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, Florida. One year later he took a staff photographer position at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He would later leave to work at The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, for a few years but would return to south Florida and the Sun-Sentinel. His primary long-term goal is to document the evolving culture and influence of Hip Hop and explore its role as a voice for the concerns of minorities and the less affluent. During his career, John has been honored with awards from the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, The Southern Short Course in News Photography, The North Carolina Press Photographer's Association, and the North Carolina Press Association.

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