Award-winning Kansas news photographer dies

Snead in a social media account from March of 2015 "An old hard drive find. December 15, 2005 found (longtime Washington Post Publisher) Ben Bradlee (left) outside the Jefferson Hotel in D.C. obviously hurting for a lunch date. — Courtesy photo -Snead in a social media account from March of 2015 “An old hard drive find. December 15, 2005 found (longtime Washington Post Editor) Ben Bradlee (left) outside the Jefferson Hotel in D.C. obviously hurting for a lunch date.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Bill Snead, an award-winning news photographer from Kansas whose career included covering wars and national political conventions, has died. He was 78. You can see some of his amazing work here.

Snead’s wife, Dona Snead, said Monday that Snead died at his Lawrence home Sunday after struggling for several months with advanced lung cancer.

Snead spent 21 years with The Washington Post, including as a staff photographer and assistant managing editor for graphics.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports Snead also served as picture editor for National Geographic and bureau manager for United Press International in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Snead was later a senior editor at The Lawrence Journal-World until 2007.

He won the newspaper photographer of the year award from the White House News Photographers Association in the early 1990s.