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Thomas Haley is an American photo journalist and documentary film maker. Born 1951 in Salem, Oregon, he has lived in Paris, France since the early 70's. He worked for Sipa Press photo agency from 1983 to 2011, covering international news for the major news weeklies such as Time, Newsweek, Paris Match, Stern, l'Express, etc. <1> He has covered armed conflict, political and social turmoil and natural disaster from Panama to Tiananmen Square, the Balkans and the Middle East.<2> His work on the Bhopal industrial accident in 1984 was awarded with a World Press Award.<3> He has received three POY citations for news and feature work.<4/5/6> He covered the rise of People's Power and the fall of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines; the major events in Eastern Europe which led to the fall of the Berlin wall and Soviet Communism. He covered the Yugoslave conflict since the outbreak of the war from most fronts.<7> In 2006, his work on the aftermath of the war in Bosnia was awarded with a special jury’s prize for the Prix Paris Match.<8> In 2013 he directed his first documentary film, "American Dreamer". <9>