Allan Detrich is an American photographer. He was born in Attica, Ohio

Attica, Ohio

Attica is a village in Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The population was 955 at the 2000 census.Attica was designed a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation.-Geography:Attica is located at ....

, and attended the Ohio Institute of Photography in Dayton, Ohio

Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...

. In 1998 his photo-essay "Children of the Underground" made it to the finals of the Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

 for Feature Photography. In 2002 his photograph of a tornado

Tornado

A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They are often referred to as a twister or a cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology in a wider...

 in Tiffin, Ohio

Tiffin, Ohio

Tiffin is a city in and the county seat of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The population was 18,135 at the 2000 census. The National Arbor Day Foundation has designated Tiffin as a Tree City USA....

 was chosen by Time magazine as one of their "Best Photos of the Year."

Detrich worked at the Toledo Blade from 1989-2007. He left the Blade in April 2007 when it was discovered that he had digitally altered a photo that was published on the front page of the March 31, 2007 edition. A subsequent investigation revealed that he had digitally altered and submitted 79 photos during the first 14 weeks of 2007, 58 of which ran either in the Blade or on its website. The National Press Photographers Association

National Press Photographers Association

NPPA is the acronym for the National Press Photographers Association, founded in 1947. The organization is based in Durham, North Carolina and its mostly made up of still photographers, television videographers, editors, and students in the journalism field...

 (NPPA) referred to Detrich as a "serial digital manipulator of news photographs." Since leaving the Blade he has been working as a freelance photographer and in the motion picture industry.

Since 1998 Detrich has been active as a "storm chaser

Storm chasing

Storm chasing is broadly defined as the pursuit of any severe weather condition, regardless of motive, which can be curiosity, adventure, scientific exploration or for news professions/media coverage....

." He spends several weeks each summer studying and photographing tornadoes in the American Great Plains

Great Plains

The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, which lies west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. This area covers parts of the U.S...

 with other enthusiasts. He is also known as a collector of and an expert on the Diana camera

Diana camera

The Diana camera is a plastic-bodied box camera utilizing 120 rollfilm. Most versions take 16 photographs per roll in a non-standard format of 4.2cm square using a simple plastic meniscus lens, although some are capable of 12 6 x 6cm exposures...

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External links

• allandetrich.com Detrich's homepage.
• Moving Pictures: a Blog about Life and Weather Detrich's blog.