He was awarded a fellowship grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and a silver medal in New York's International Film and TV Festival.
In 2013 RB Books published Seitz's first memoir, highlighting photographs from over ten years of photojournalism in more than twenty countries in Africa, Asia, and Israel/Palestine called Turn the World Around, A Photojournalist Discovers Paths to Peace Traveling a War-torn Planet.
Blair Seitz earned his BS in Sociology in 1967, and also took UVA extension courses in photography from the University of Virginia, in Richmond.
Seitz started his career working with UN agencies and Camera Press, London, traveling throughout Africa and Asia to illustrate UN reports and journalistic assignments.
[2] In 1972 Blair Seitz ended up in the field working with Dr. James Merriman, now a professor of anthropology and sociology at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.