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James Edward Bates
James Edward Bates grew up in south Mississippi. He considers renowned civil-rights photojournalist Charles Moore to be his mentor; Moore's reportage of the civil-rights movement in the 1960s is attributed to shifting the national mood in favor of equality for all Americans.
Bates documents the Ku Klux Klan and other groups honestly, recording their words and actions accurately, as they exist before his camera. His seven-year reportage of the Ku Klux Klan featured among hanging exhibits at the prestigious international festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, France: Visa Pour L'image, 2003. It also exhibited at the St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art in Scotland (November 2005 to April 2006), and at London's SS Robin Gallery (August - October 2006). Additional engagements are pending around the world.
Bates' photography appeared in Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster's In Search of America. He has been published U.S. News and World Report, Newsweek, American Photo, People, Rolling Stone, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald and many other national and international newspapers and magazines. He is currently a staff photographer at the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Mississippi and was part of the paper's team effort covering Hurricane Katrina that received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize.
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