Martin Tucker
Martin Tucker is an award-winning photojournalist, documentary filmmaker and speaker. He was a photographer for Southern California Sports Magazine, The Pacific Palisades Post, The Malibu Times, The Winston-Salem Journal, American Profile Magazine and The Community Arts Café Magazine. His work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New York Post, Charlotte Magazine, the Associated Press, Our State-The Magazine of North Carolina, Humanities Magazine, Vietnam Veterans of America Magazine, US Weekly and People Magazine. His documentary work includes Patty - This Is My Normal, a documentary short film selection at the RiverRun International Film Festival; The WWII Veterans Project, interviews with and portraits of over one hundred WWII veterans; and 5-25-06 -a Rolling Thunder Rides To Washington. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the Military Order of the Purple Heart for creating and curating the exhibition A Thousand Words: Photographs by Vietnam Veterans. Martin was also chosen as one of the 20 People of the Year by GoTriad Magazine for A Thousand Words: Photographs by Vietnam Veterans. He is a former Photography & Computer Graphics Coordinator and Instructor at the Sawtooth School for Visual Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and currently teaches photography and digital media at Summit School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.