Philip Holsinger

Philip Holsinger is an American photojournalist and writer reporting in the immersive, first-person style of the Gonzo tradition. Holsinger has worked in some of the world's most volatile regions observing conflicts and human peril; including the aftermath of war in the Balkans, the effects of Southeast Asia's drug war, and Nicaragua's Miskito region once at the heart of the Iran-Contra affair. His work is displayed in mixed-media exhibitions and through mostly private contract reporting....See more

Philip Holsinger is an American photojournalist and writer reporting in the immersive, first-person style of the Gonzo tradition. Holsinger has worked in some of the world's most volatile regions observing conflicts and human peril; including the aftermath of war in the Balkans, the effects of Southeast Asia's drug war, and Nicaragua's Miskito region once at the heart of the Iran-Contra affair. His work is displayed in mixed-media exhibitions and through mostly private contract reporting. Holsinger served as a private contractor for the Haitian Primature from April 2013 to September 2014 documenting the social and ethnographic effects of the government's national development projects. Prior to this contract and following, Holsinger traveled extensively throughout Haiti, living for a time with the warlord generals in the notorious gangland, Cite Soleil. He is the author of two previous books of photojournalism - A Tourist of Saints: A Photo Graphic Journal of Haiti (2014, Henri Deschamps); and Unembraced: Photographic Dispatches (2010, self-published). See less