Jonestown, 9/11 & World Coverage
David Hume Kennerly, Police Officer and Wounded Anti-War Demonstrator, San Francisco State College, San Francisco, California, 1968
David Hume Kennerly, Bicycles Pass the Entrance to the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, 1989
David Hume Kennerly, Japanese Cameramen Running to Cover President Ronald Reagan's Arrival to Greet Emperor Hirohito at the Akasaka Guest Palace, Tokyo, Japan, 1983.
David Hume Kennerly, A Marsh Arab School, Al Basrah, Iraq, 1990
David Hume Kennerly, Veiled Women Workers in the Imam Husayn Shrine, Karbala, Iraq, 2010.
David Hume Kennerly, Army Troops Training, El Salvador, 1980.
David Hume Kennerly, Space Shuttle Discovery, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 1998
David Hume Kennerly, STS-95 Crew at Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, 1998.
David Hume Kennerly, John Ashcroft, Attorney General, Speaking to Press, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C., 2001
David Hume Kennerly, Adam Clayton Powell, Congressman, Addresses a Crowd, Watts, Los Angeles, 1968. © Bettmann/Getty Images
David Hume Kennerly, Ethel Kennedy inside Ambulance after Her Husband, Robert F. Kennedy, Senator, Was Shot, Los Angeles, California, 1968. © Bettmann/Getty Images
David Hume Kennerly, Aerial View of Victims from Jonestown Mass Murder-Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978
David Hume Kennerly, Victims of Jonestown Mass Murder-Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978
David Hume Kennerly, Victims of Jonestown Mass Murder-Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978
David Hume Kennerly, Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary, and Party, Aboard a C-17 Cargo Plane, 2001
David Hume Kennerly, Police Shooting, Manhattan Beach, California, 1968. © Bettmann/Getty Images
David Hume Kennerly, Victims of Jonestown Mass Murder-Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978.
David Hume Kennerly, Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, in His Car the Day After the 9/11 Attacks, Washington, D.C., 2001
David Hume Kennerly, Police Officer and Anti-War Demonstrators in Standoff at Threshold of San Francisco State College Administration Building, San Francisco, California, 1968. © Bettmann/Getty Images
David Hume Kennerly, Victims of Jonestown Mass Murder-Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978
David Hume Kennerly, George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, President and Secretary of Defense, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C., 2001
David Hume Kennerly, D.C. Police Officers Knocking down Protestors, Washington, D.C., 1970. © Bettmann/Getty Images
David Hume Kennerly, An Air Force F-16 Flying over the Pentagon Following the 9/11 Attacks, Washington, D.C., 2001
David Hume Kennerly, Refugees from East Pakistan Enter India, 1971. © Bettmann/Getty Images
David Hume Kennerly, Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, Talking to a Soldier in Front of Damaged Pentagon, Washington, D.C., 2001
Like all great photojournalism, David Hume Kennerly’s body of work follows the political contours of our time. The scope of his photography interweaves breaking news and routine events, chronicles human triumph and tragedy, and alternately addresses the larger context or the singular face of a moment.