Steve Liss

Chicago, Illinois, United States

<p class="TXT" align="left">A licensed private pilot who has often flown himself to and from assignments, Steve has produced dozens of award-winning photographic essays during his thirty year career as a staff photographer for <em>Time</em> magazine, on subjects ranging from poverty in the Mississippi Delta to runaway youth living on the streets of Hollywood. Forty-three of his photographs have appeared on the cover of <em>Time</em> and his recent book, <em>No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention</em> (University of Texas Press, 2005) received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Pictures of the Year International World Understanding Award. He has been the recipient of a Soros Justice Media Fellowship for his work on juvenile detention and an Alicia Paterson Fellowship for his work documenting poverty. Steve is executive director of AmericanPoverty.org, an organization of photojournalists dedicated to encouraging a new dialogue about poverty in the United States. For the past six years Steve taught graduate photojournalism at Northwestern University and he is currently an Ascend Fellow at the Aspen Institute and on the full time faculty at Columbia College Chicago.</p>

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