stefan ellis

news Photographer

1965 - 1996

Born in Washington DC November 20, 1965, graduated from Georgetown Day School 1983 and Hampshire College 1987.

For his senior thesis at Hampshire he moved to Cambodia and photographed the Cambodian refugee camps. His full page photo essay on the camps was published in the Boston Globe that year and launched his career as a photojournalist.

Later he worked for United Press International and freelanced in Washington DC before returning to Cambodia in 1989. He was a photo editor in Hong Kong for Agence France Press from 89 to 1991, when he returned to Phnom Penh and established AFP’s photo bureau. He covered the UN Peace Keeping effort there through 1993 as well as events in India, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. He moved to Moscow in 1994 and to Israel in 1995.

Cambodia camps

1986-87   Siem Reap Cambodia Thai Border Refugee Camps 

Abortion March

1989    Washington DC.  NARAL March for Women’s Lives 


Cambodia LAter

1991-3    Phnom Penh Cambodia head of Agence France Press Photo Bureau during UN Peace Keeping Effort 


India

 1991    Election of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi with wife Sonia 


Russia

1994     Moscow, writing about environmental issues, where he was badly beaten in a street robbery. 


IsraEl

1995     Israel, head stringer for Associated Press