Education
In 1984 he graduated from Hampshire College with a Bachelor in Photography.
In 1984 he graduated from Hampshire College with a Bachelor in Photography.
He has received several World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International awards for his work spanning from 1989 to the present. After graduation, Stone returned to New York City and worked in corporate and fashion photography. In 1986 he was hired as an assistant to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority photographer on Madison Avenue.
Stone became the head photographer.
Foreign 4 years Stone worked at the MTA, photographing the entire transit system. In 1987 for Stone"s first overseas assignment he traveled to Portuguese-au-Prince, Haiti to photograph the November 29th election.
He was one of only two American photographers to capture the attack on camera. After the publicity of Stone"s photographs, he was called by Sygma to work with them for the next 11 years.
With Sygma, he traveled extensively throughout the world, covering conflict in the Middle East, Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Kurdistan.
Stone"s photographs have appeared in the following publications: National Geographic, the cover of Time, Life, Paris Match, Stern, Fortune, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Smithsonian Magazine, Newsweek, Mother Jones, Panorama, GEO, television Guide, and United States News and World Report. Les Stone has chronicled conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Kosovo, Liberia, Cambodia and Haiti. He worked on a documentary photo essay on the effects of Agent Orange in the Vietnamese countryside.
His photo essays also include the life of the Yanomami in the Amazon, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and health issues of coal mining communities in Appalachia.
In 2003, Stone joined the Vision Project founded in 2003, becoming a partner. Vision Project created a Podcast about Stone called Penetrating the Heart of the Image.
His work is represented by Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn New New York
On May 10, 1989 he photographed the bloody assault on the Vice President-elect of Panama Guillermo Ford by members of the Batallón Dignidad, a paramilitary group employed by Generalissimo Manuel Noriega.
