Richard Sennott

Richard Sennott was a staff photographer at the Minneapolis Star Tribune from 1986 to 2014. His assignments have taken him into conflicts in Bosnia, El Salvador, Iraq, Afghanistan and the West Bank, and to disaster coverage of floods, tornados, forest fires and earthquakes.

Sennott’s artful independent documentary work has earned him two McKnight Photography Fellowships a National Endowment for the Arts grant and the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism gold medal for photography and writing for a story about Italy’s convents. His work has been published in Life, Newsweek, Time Magazine, the New York Times and the National Geographic Traveler.

A New Light

Five Years in Frames: The Best of ‘A New Light’

GroundTruth’s “A New Light” is all about seeing the world through a different perspective. Somalia’s arid landscape as...

Jun 21, 2019

During Christmas celebrations, Catholic clergy participate in a procession outside the Church of the in the biblical city of Bethlehem, West Bank, on December 24th 2007. (Photo by Heidi Levine).

Photography

Documenting Christianity

Documenting Christianity: Scenes from the Middle East During Christmas celebrations, Catholic clergy participate in a procession outside the...

Apr 21, 2017