By Bobby Tanzilo Senior Editor/Writer Published Sep 06, 2006 at 8:21 AM
In the past year, I've written about the Torino Olympics and the World Cup, about Milwaukee festivals and a ton of local musicians. I also wrote about the march through Downtown Milwaukee by citizens protesting the verdicts in the Frank Jude beating case.

Nothing makes me more content about my beat here at OnMilwaukee.com than leafing through "Assignments: The Press Photographer's Year," published in oversized paperback by Prestel.

Across 135 pages, "Assignments" looks back on the year that was, via the powerful images captured by always creative and often daring photojournalists around the world.

From a London double-decker bus mangled by a bomb to the bloody head of a Kashmiri child after a terrible earthquake to a 15-year-old girl in Bangladesh covered in the scars of an acid attack, these are the kinds of stories that many journalists are compelled to cover in the world today.

These journalists must have a gut made of steel, a heart that beats for humanity and a head that knows no fear. In fact, the photos in this slim, but stunning volume, are all winners ... literally and/or figuratively. All of them were entered in the annual competition sponsored by the British Press Photographer's Association.

The book also has sections featuring entries on sports, the arts and other categories, incidentally. So, it's not all bad news.
Bobby Tanzilo Senior Editor/Writer

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.

He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.

With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.

He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.

In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.

He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.