Independent filmmaker-photographer-writer Roger M. Richards works primarily as a documentary producer with The Drew Carey Project at Reason.tv. Richards is also a documentary still photographer.

He began his photojournalism career focusing on political and social themes in the Caribbean, the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua and then joining the Gamma Liaison photo agency in 1988. Based in Miami and then Europe, his work with the agency included the US invasion of Panama, political upheaval in Haiti, civil war in Croatia and the siege of Sarajevo.

Richards is the recipient of numerous awards from the National Press Photographers’ Association, the White House News Photographers’ Association, Pictures of the Year International, the Society of Newspaper Design, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Virginia News Photographers Association. He was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, in 1990 and 2008. Richards was Multimedia Editor/Producer for The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia from 2001 to 2007. He is a former Associated Press photo bureau chief in Bogotá, Colombia, and a staff photographer at the Washington Times in Washington, DC, from 1997-2000.

He became a filmmaker in 1998, focusing on projects about war in the Balkans. He was awarded the first White House News Photographers’ Association sabbatical grant for video journalism in 2000 and in 1999 was one of the first graduates of the famous Platypus Workshop that trains photojournalists how to become video journalists and filmmakers. In 2002 he joined Dirck Halstead and PF Bentley on the Platypus Workshop faculty.

Email: rogeratrogermrichardsdotcom