Kevin P. Coughlin

Kevin P. Coughlin is a photojournalist, senior technical photographer, aerial cinematographer, public affairs officer and pilot.

On August 15, 1991, Coughlin persuaded an HBO camera crew to allow him in a cherry picker for an aerial shot of an estimated crowd of 750,000 people attending a free concert by Paul Simon in New York's Central Park.

In the late 1990s, Coughlin made the transition from 35mm film to Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR)cameras, one of the first independent photojournalists to do so, and began freelancing for The New York Times.

He also worked on personal projects, such as traveling to Vatican City to cover the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005.

In this documentary, Newsday chronicled the murder of George Floyd, an African-American man, and the 8 minutes 46 seconds that a white Minneapolis police officer spent kneeling on his neck.

Floyd's murder set off a firestorm of protest and a cry for social justice on Long Island, NY and across the nation.

He currently works as a senior technical photographer, videographer, and sUAS pilot at Brookhaven National Laboratory under the United States Department of Energy.