Lucian Read, photographer to receive the 2019 Denig award in Atlanta
Lucian Read’s upcoming book, “All of Which I Saw: With the US Marine Corps in Iraq”.
Lucian Read
Lucian Read, the civilian combat photographer who captured the iconic Iraqi War image “Hell House” of then-First Sgt. Brad Kasal being helped out of battle-scarred building by two of his men, is scheduled to receive the Robert L. Denig, Sr. Memorial Distinguished Service Award in Atlanta at the USMCCCA Annual Awards Banquet on August 22.
The image, already the subject of statues and paintings, also adorns the cover of Lucian’s soon to be released book, All of Which I Saw: With the US Marine Corps in Iraq.
But Lucian Read is more than just a good photographer, said USMCCCA national board member Paul Mancuso, who nominated the Brooklyn resident for the award.
“His impact goes beyond telling the stories of our Marines in combat,” Paul said. “He also dedicated his own time to teaching and mentoring CommStrat Marines directly through a series of workshops.”
Mancuso notes that Read joins “several previous eminent recipients of the Denig Award, including Joe Rosenthal, David Douglas Duncan and Joe Galloway.”
Before co-creating the critically-acclaimed “America Divided,” he was co-producer and principal cinematographer for the feature documentary “99% – The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film,” an official 2013 Sundance selection.
Lucian was awarded the 2015 Emmy for an investigation of deaths on the US-Mexico border.
Read’s work as a producer for “Dan Rather Reports from the Afghan War” was nominated for an Emmy in 2010. And his photojournalism excellence during the Iraq and Afghan Wars for publications such as Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Newsweek and Time garnered a World Press Photo Award in 2006.
Of additional special interest to Marines is the representative sampling of his talents — including The Battle of Fallujah — which reside in the permanent collection of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia.
Other recent cinematography credits include the documentary series “VICE” on HBO, “The Fourth Estate,””Deadliest Catch,” “Death Row Stories” and the feature documentaries “Time to Choose,” “City of Joel” and “Be Right Back: Maurizio Cattelan.”
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