ASMP Member Profile:

Dirck Halstead

Dirck Halstead is a freelance photojournalist and filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. Halstead holds the record for the most TIME magazine covers shot by any single photographer. He is also one of the most prolific advertising photographers for the motion picture industry. His clients include Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Tri-Star, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, and DEG. Other corporate clients have included ITT, Merrill Lynch and IBM. He has been a leader in the transition from still photography to High Definition Video, and has produced stories for ABC, The State of Texas, and AARP. Halstead is also Editor and Publisher of digitaljournalist.org, a monthly online magazine for visual journalism. He is a senior fellow in photojournalism at the Center For American History at UT. He has been honored with Lifetime Achievment Award of the White House News Photographers, the Joesph A.Sprague Lifetime Achievement Award of the NPPA, the Missouri Honor Medal for service to Journalism, and the Robert Capa Award.

ASMP Chapter: Austin/San Antonio