Danfung Dennis graduated from Cornell University with degrees in Applied Economics and International Agriculture in 2005. He worked briefly for a business consulting organization. He began his photojournalism career by freelancing for the Beijing Bureau of The Associated Press covering breaking news throughout Asia. In 2006, he traveled to Afghanistan to cover the increase in fighting and lack of reconstruction and development. He spent much of 2007 and 2008 covering Iraq. Now based in London, he will focus his future work on documenting wars, conflicts and critical social and economic issues.
His work has been published in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, The Times, The Sunday Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Sunday Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Le Figaro Magazine, Financial Times Magazine, Mother Jones, L'Express, Der Spiegel, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the Wall Street Journal and his footage aired by PBS, ITV, and CBS.
