In just 11 years, eBay and its members - you -- have made a tremendous, positive impact on American culture and daily life. Some of the most active local eBay communities - and some of the individual eBay members who helped them perform so well in Community Counts -- will be photographed by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer David Hume Kennerly as part of a project documenting eBay communities across America. Next year, eBay will donate a collection of these images to the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, where they'll join an expansive archive of historic images.

David Hume Kennerly, a contributor for NBC News,  has been shooting on the front lines of history for four decades. He has photographed eight wars, seven presidents, and has traveled to more than 140 countries along the way.   He is an authentic global photographer, as much in his element in the desert covering a war as he is in the oval office photographing the commander-in-chief.   He never gives up on his quest to capture the “decisive moment.”
 
Kennerly won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his photos of the Vietnam War, and was chief White House photographer for President Gerald R. Ford. He has also won the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award for “Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad,” and two first prizes in the World Press contest.   He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy as executive producer of NBC’s, “The Taking of Flight 847,” and was writer and Executive Producer of a two-hour NBC pilot, “Shooter,” starring Helen Hunt, based on his Vietnam experiences. “Shooter” won the Emmy for “Outstanding Cinematography,” beating out “Lonesome Dove” in that category.

He has also been a contributor for Time, Life, and John F. Kennedy, Jr’s George magazine. He has published several books of his work, “Shooter,” “Photo Op,” “Seinoff,” and in the year 2000, Kennerly traveled more than 250,000 miles to 38 states and seven countries for his fourth book, “Photo du Jour:  A Picture-a-Day Journey through the First Year of the New Millennium.”  “Photo du Jour” was selected as one of the best books of 2002 by American Photo Magazine, and the Smithsonian Institute exhibited photographs from the book in their Arts & Industry Building in Washington, D.C., one of the largest photographic shows ever mounted there.

Kennerly is on the board of the Eddie Adams Photo Workshop, and is also on the Atlanta Board of Visitors of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).  He currently has a show of his photographs hanging in the Annenberg School of Communications on the campus of the University of Southern California.  His archive is housed at the Center for American History at the University of Texas in Austin.

David Hume Kennerly was recently named an NBC News Contributing Editor by NBC News President Steve Capus. He will provide special still-photo essays on a variety of topics for NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, and other NBC Universal outlets.

Kennerly was a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine for the past ten years, and was recently named, “One of the Most 100 Most Important People in Photography” by American Photo Magazine.

Kennerly exclusively uses Canon cameras for his digital photography.

For more information about David Hume Kennerly go to www.kennerly.com