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3 unusual facts about Bill Foley


Bill Foley

For his efforts to free Hezbollah hostage and Beirut AP colleague Terry A. Anderson, Foley received one of the first International Press Freedom Awards from the Committee to Protect Journalists in 1991, along with his wife Cary Vaughan.

At Sabra and the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon in September 1982, Foley shot a "series of pictures of victims and survivors of the Sabra and Shatila massacre", for which he and AP won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.

From 1984 to 1990, he worked as a contract photographer for TIME, covering stories including the Palestinian intifada, Operation Desert Shield, the Iran-Iraq War, and Nelson Mandela's first visit to New York City.



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