Peter van Agtmael

Peter van Agtmael (born 1981) is a documentary photographer based in New York. Since 2006 he has concentrated on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their consequences in the United States. He is a member of Magnum Photos.

Van Agtmael's photo essays have been published in ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''Time'', ''The New Yorker'' and ''The Guardian''. He has published three books. His first, ''2nd Tour Hope I Don't Die'', was published by Photolucida as a prize for winning their Critical Mass Book Award. He received a W. Eugene Smith Grant from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund to complete his second book, ''Disco Night Sept. 11.'' His third, ''Buzzing at the Sill'', was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2016. He has twice received awards from World Press Photo, the Infinity Award for Young Photographer from the International Center of Photography and a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Provided by Wikipedia