2007 Infinity Award: Cornell Capa Award

A consummate photojournalist and dedicated activist, Milton Rogovin has illuminated social issues for more than 60 years. Globally, he has focused his lens on the plight of the miner in 10 nations; locally, the decline of the steel industry and the struggle of the working people of his home town of Buffalo, New York. His work has been featured in more than 60 solo exhibitions, and he received the W. Eugene Smith Award for Documentary Photography in 1983. Rogovin's photographs are in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Biblothèque Nationale, Paris; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London.