Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
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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 Spot News Photography
was awarded from 1968 – 1999, thereafter being renamed as the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, has been awarded since 2000. Before 1968, there was only one photography category, the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which was divided into the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and feature categories...

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List of winners

  • 1968: Rocco Morabito
    Rocco Morabito
    Rocco Morabito was an American photographer who spent the majority of his career at the Jacksonville Journal....

    , Jacksonville Journal
    Jacksonville Journal
    Jacksonville Journal is a now-defunct afternoon newspaper in the Jacksonville, Florida area. It began publication as the Metropolis in 1887. Renamed The Florida Metropolis in the early 1900s, it was renamed the Jacksonville Journal in 1922 upon its purchase by John H. Perry. The Journal's new...

    , for his photograph of telephone linemen, "The Kiss of Life".
  • 1969: Edward T. Adams
    Eddie Adams (photographer)
    Eddie Adams was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and his coverage of 13 wars.-Combat photographer:...

    , Associated Press
    Associated Press
    The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

    , for his photograph,"Saigon Execution
    Nguyen Ngoc Loan
    General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan was the Republic of Vietnam's Chief of National Police. Nguyễn gained international attention when he executed handcuffed prisoner Nguyễn Văn Lém, a Viet Cong soldier, on February 1, 1968 in front of Vo Suu, an NBC cameraman, and Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photographer...

    ".
  • 1970: Steve Starr
    Steve Starr
    -Life:He worked for the Associated Press, Albany Bureau.His photograph of armed African American protesters leaving Willard Straight Hall at Cornell University, won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.He married Marilynne Starr....

    , Associated Press
    Associated Press
    The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

    , for his news photo taken at Cornell University
    Cornell University
    Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

    , "Campus Guns".
  • 1971: John Paul Filo
    John Filo
    John Paul Filo took the 1970 Pulitzer Prize winning photo of a 14-year-old runaway girl , crying while kneeling over the body of 20-year-old Jeffrey Miller, one of the victims of the Kent State shootings...

    , Valley Daily News/Daily Dispatch
    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
    The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, also known as "the Trib," is the second largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States...

    , of the Pittsburgh suburbs of Tarentum
    Tarentum, Pennsylvania
    Tarentum is a borough in Allegheny County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is northeast of Downtown Pittsburgh, along the Allegheny River. Tarentum was an industrial center where plate glass and bottles were manufactured; bricks, lumber, steel and iron novelties, steel billets and sheets,...

     and New Kensington
    New Kensington, Pennsylvania
    New Kensington is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania situated along the Allegheny River northeast of Pittsburgh. The population was 14,701 at the 2000 Census. The mayor of New Kensington is Tom Guzzo , elected in 2009. He succeeded Mayor Frank E. Link , elected in 2001.-History:New...

    , for his pictorial coverage of the Kent State University tragedy
    Kent State shootings
    The Kent State shootings—also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre—occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970...

     on May 4, 1970.
  • 1972: Horst Faas
    Horst Faas
    Horst Faas is a photo-journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He is best-known for his images of the Vietnam War.-Life:...

     and Michel Laurent, Associated Press
    Associated Press
    The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

    , for their picture series, "Death in Dacca".
  • 1973: Huynh Cong Ut, Associated Press
    Associated Press
    The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

    , for his photograph, "The Terror of War," depicting children in flight from a napalm bombing
    Napalm
    Napalm is a thickening/gelling agent generally mixed with gasoline or a similar fuel for use in an incendiary device, primarily as an anti-personnel weapon...

    .
  • 1974: Anthony K. Roberts
    Anthony K. Roberts
    Anthony Kalani Roberts, also known as Kal Roberts, , was an actor and photographer, best known as the recipient of a 1974 Pulitzer Prize for photojournalism.-Biography:...

    , a freelance photographer of Beverly Hills, California
    Beverly Hills, California
    Beverly Hills is an affluent city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. With a population of 34,109 at the 2010 census, up from 33,784 as of the 2000 census, it is home to numerous Hollywood celebrities. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together...

    , for his picture series, "Fatal Hollywood Drama," in which an alleged kidnapper
    Kidnapper
    Kidnapper may refer to:* Kidnapper , a film by Kelvin Tong* "Kidnapper" , by American band Blondie on the Plastic Letters album* A person who performs a kidnapping-See also:* Kidnapped * Kidnapping...

     was killed.
  • 1975: Gerald H. Gay, Seattle Times, for his photograph of four exhausted firefighter
    Firefighter
    Firefighters are rescuers extensively trained primarily to put out hazardous fires that threaten civilian populations and property, to rescue people from car incidents, collapsed and burning buildings and other such situations...

    s, "Lull in the Battle".
  • 1976: Stanley Forman
    Stanley Forman
    Stanley Joseph Forman is a photojournalist who over a four-year period won a Pulitzer Prize three times while working at the Boston Herald American....

    , Boston Herald-American
    Boston Herald
    The Boston Herald is a daily newspaper that serves Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and its surrounding area. It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States...

    , for his sequence of photographs of a fire in Boston
    Boston
    Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

     on July 22, 1975.
  • 1977: Stanley Forman
    Stanley Forman
    Stanley Joseph Forman is a photojournalist who over a four-year period won a Pulitzer Prize three times while working at the Boston Herald American....

    , Boston Herald-American
    Boston Herald
    The Boston Herald is a daily newspaper that serves Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and its surrounding area. It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States...

    , for his photograph The Soiling of Old Glory
    The Soiling of Old Glory
    The Soiling of Old Glory is a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph taken for the Boston Herald American in 1976 by Stanley Forman.The photograph depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, about to assault black lawyer and civil-rights activist Ted Landsmark with a flagpole bearing the American flag...

    , which depicts Joseph Rakes attacking Theodore Landsmark — using an American flag as a lance — during a desegregation busing
    Desegregation busing
    Desegregation busing in the United States is the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools in such a manner as to redress prior racial segregation of schools, or to overcome the effects of residential segregation on local school demographics.In 1954, the U.S...

     demonstration at Boston City Hall
    Boston City Hall
    Boston City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of Boston, Massachusetts. Architecturally, it is an example of the brutalist style. It was designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles...

    .
  • 1977: Neal Ulevich
    Neal Ulevich
    Neal Hirsh Ulevich is an American photographer, and winner of a Pulitzer Prize.-Life:A native of Milwaukee, Ulevich attended public and private schools before enrolling at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he graduated in 1968 with a BA degree in Journalism...

    , of the Associated Press
    Associated Press
    The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

    , for a series of photographs of disorder and brutality in the streets of Bangkok
    Bangkok
    Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...

    .
  • 1978: John H. Blair
    John H. Blair
    John H. Blair was a Scottish sailor. During his early career, he worked aboard the Loch Line, which operated between Britain and Australia. He then joined a Melbourne shipping company, and worked the Australia-India trade...

    , a special assignment photographer for United Press International
    United Press International
    United Press International is a once-major international news agency, whose newswires, photo, news film and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations for most of the twentieth century...

    , for a photograph of Tony Kiritsis
    Tony Kiritsis
    Anthony G. Kiritsis was an American kidnapper.He was a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana and had fallen behind on the payments on a mortgage on a piece of real estate. In February 1977, when his mortgage broker, Richard O...

     holding an Indianapolis
    Indianapolis
    Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...

     broker hostage at gunpoint.
  • 1979: Thomas J. Kelly III, Pottstown Mercury, Pennsylvania, for a series called "Tragedy on Sanatoga
    Sanatoga, Pennsylvania
    Sanatoga is a community and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is immediately east of the borough of Pottstown, Pennsylvania on route US 422...

     Road."
  • 1980: Jahangir Razmi
    Jahangir Razmi
    Jahangir Razmi is an award-winning Iranian photographer and the author of the entry that won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. His photograph, Firing Squad in Iran, was taken on August 27, 1979 and published anonymously in the Iranian daily Ettela'at, the oldest still running...

    , United Press International
    United Press International
    United Press International is a once-major international news agency, whose newswires, photo, news film and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations for most of the twentieth century...

    , for "Firing Squad in Iran". In 2006, the photographer's identity was revealed to be Jahangir Razmi
    Jahangir Razmi
    Jahangir Razmi is an award-winning Iranian photographer and the author of the entry that won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. His photograph, Firing Squad in Iran, was taken on August 27, 1979 and published anonymously in the Iranian daily Ettela'at, the oldest still running...

    .
  • 1981: Larry C. Price, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram
    The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a major U.S. daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. Its area of domination is checked by its main rival, The Dallas Morning News, which is published from the eastern half of the Metroplex. It is owned...

    , for his photographs from Liberia
    Liberia
    Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...

    .
  • 1982: Ron Edmonds, Associated Press
    Associated Press
    The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

    , for his coverage of the Reagan assassination attempt
    Reagan assassination attempt
    The Reagan assassination attempt occurred on Monday, March 30, 1981, just 69 days into the presidency of Ronald Reagan. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr...

    .
  • 1983: Bill Foley
    Bill Foley
    Bill Foley is a US photojournalist whose work has been recognized by several national and international awards. He is an alumnus of Indiana University and has worked on assignment in 47 countries, with a particular focus on the Middle East....

    , Associated Press
    Associated Press
    The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

    , for his series of pictures of victims and survivors of the massacre in the Sabra Camp
    Sabra and Shatila massacre
    The Sabra and Shatila massacre took place in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon between September 16 and September 18, 1982, during the Lebanese civil war. Palestinian and Lebanese civilians were massacred in the camps by Christian Lebanese Phalangists while the camp...

     in Beirut
    Beirut
    Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...

    .
  • 1984: Stan Grossfeld, Boston Globe, for his series of photographs which reveal the effects of war
    Lebanese Civil War
    The Lebanese Civil War was a multifaceted civil war in Lebanon. The war lasted from 1975 to 1990 and resulted in an estimated 150,000 to 230,000 civilian fatalities. Another one million people were wounded, and today approximately 350,000 people remain displaced. There was also a mass exodus of...

     on the people of Lebanon
    Lebanon
    Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

    .
  • 1985: Photography staff, Register
    The Orange County Register
    The Orange County Register is a daily newspaper published in Santa Ana, California. The Register is the flagship publication of Freedom Communications, Inc., which publishes 28 daily newspapers, 23 weekly newspapers, Coast magazine, and several related Internet sites.The Register is notable for its...

    , Santa Ana, California
    Santa Ana, California
    Santa Ana is the county seat and second most populous city in Orange County, California, and with a population of 324,528 at the 2010 census, Santa Ana is the 57th-most populous city in the United States....

    , for their coverage of the Olympic games
    1984 Summer Olympics
    The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984...

    .
  • 1986: Carol Guzy
    Carol Guzy
    Carol Guzy is a four-time Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post photographer.-Life and career:Guzy grew up in a working-class family in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania....

     and Michel duCille
    Michel duCille
    Michel duCille is an American photojournalist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He shared his first Pulitzer in the 1986 Spot News Photography category with fellow Miami Herald staff photographer Carol Guzy for their coverage of the November 1985 eruption of Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz volcano...

    , Miami Herald, for their photographs of the devastation caused by the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz
    Nevado del Ruiz
    The Nevado del Ruiz, also known as La Mesa de Herveo or Kumanday in the language of the local pre-Columbian indigenous people, is a volcano located on the border of the departments of Caldas and Tolima in Colombia, about west of the capital city Bogotá. It is a stratovolcano, composed of many...

     volcano in Colombia
    Colombia
    Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

    .
  • 1987: Kim Komenich, San Francisco Examiner, for his photographic coverage of the fall of Ferdinand Marcos
    Ferdinand Marcos
    Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino leader and an authoritarian President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate...

    .
  • 1988: Scott Shaw, Odessa American
    Odessa American
    The Odessa American is a newspaper based in Odessa, Texas, that serves Odessa as well as the rest of Ector County.The newspaper has daily editions and Sunday Editions ....

    , for his photograph of the child Jessica McClure
    Jessica McClure
    Jessica McClure Morales became famous at the age of 18 months after falling into a well in the backyard of 3309 Tanner Dr. Midland, Texas, on October 14, 1987. Between that day and October 16, rescuers worked for 58 hours to free "Baby Jessica" from the eight-inch-wide well casing below the ground...

     being rescued from the well into which she had fallen.
  • 1989: Ron Olshwanger, a freelance photographer, for a picture published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri, as far south as...

    of a firefighter giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
    Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
    Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is an emergency procedure which is performed in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person in cardiac arrest. It is indicated in those who are unresponsive...

     to a child pulled from a burning building.
  • 1990: Photo staff of the Oakland Tribune, California
    California
    California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

    , for their photographs of devastation caused by the Loma Prieta earthquake of October 17, 1989. The Oakland Tribune team consisted of Tom Duncan, Angela Pancrazio, Pat Greenhouse, Reginald Pearman, Matthew Lee, Gary Reyes, Michael Macor, Ron Riesterer, Paul Miller, Roy H. Williams.
  • 1991: Greg Marinovich
    Greg Marinovich
    Greg Sebastian Marinovich is an award-winning South African photojournalist, film maker, photo editor, and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He co-authored the book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War, which details South Africa's transition to democracy. In the 1990s, Marinovich worked as...

    , Associated Press
    Associated Press
    The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

    , for a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

    's African National Congress
    African National Congress
    The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...

     murdering a man they believed to be a Zulu spy
    SPY
    SPY is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* SPY , ticker symbol for Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts* SPY , a satirical monthly, trademarked all-caps* SPY , airport code for San Pédro, Côte d'Ivoire...

    .
  • 1992: Staff, Associated Press
    Associated Press
    The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

    , for photographs of the attempted coup in Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

     and the subsequent collapse of the Communist regime.
  • 1993: Ken Geiger and William Sneider, Dallas Morning News, for their photographs of the 1992 Summer Olympics
    1992 Summer Olympics
    The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 1992. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same...

     in Barcelona
    Barcelona
    Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

    .
  • 1994: Paul Watson
    Paul Watson (journalist)
    Paul Richard Watson is a Canadian photojournalist and author.Watson was born in Weston, Ontario. He was awarded the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for his photograph, taken in 1993 while covering the civil war in Somalia for the Toronto Star newspaper. The photograph depicted U.S....

    , Toronto Star
    Toronto Star
    The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its print edition is distributed almost entirely within the province of Ontario...

    , for his photograph, published around the world, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged by Somalis through the streets of Mogadishu
    Mogadishu
    Mogadishu , popularly known as Xamar, is the largest city in Somalia and the nation's capital. Located in the coastal Benadir region on the Indian Ocean, the city has served as an important port for centuries....

    .
  • 1995: Carol Guzy
    Carol Guzy
    Carol Guzy is a four-time Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post photographer.-Life and career:Guzy grew up in a working-class family in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania....

    , Washington Post, for her series of photographs illustrating the crisis in Haiti
    Haiti
    Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

     and its aftermath.
  • 1996: Charles Porter IV, a freelancer, for his photographs taken after the Oklahoma City bombing
    Oklahoma City bombing
    The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. It was the most destructive act of terrorism on American soil until the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Oklahoma blast claimed 168 lives, including 19...

     and distributed by the Associated Press
    Associated Press
    The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

    , showing a one-year-old victim handed to and then cradled by a fireman.
  • 1997: Annie Wells
    Annie Wells
    Annie Wells is an American photographer, winner of a Pulitzer Prize.-Life:She graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A...

    , Press Democrat
    Press Democrat
    The Press Democrat, with the largest circulation on the California North Coast, is a daily newspaper published in Santa Rosa, California.It was founded in 1897 by Ernest L. Finley who merged his Evening Press and Thomas Thompson's Sonoma Democrat...

    , Santa Rosa, California
    Santa Rosa, California
    Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States. The 2010 census reported a population of 167,815. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Wine Country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont and 26th...

    , for her photograph of a firefighter rescuing a teenager from raging flood
    Flood
    A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. The EU Floods directive defines a flood as a temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water...

    waters.
  • 1998: Martha Rial
    Martha Rial
    Martha Rial is a staff photographer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for her photography of Rwanda and Burundi.-Life:She is a native of the Pittsburgh suburb of Murrysville, Pennsylvania....

    , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the "PG," is the largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.-Early history:...

    , for her portraits of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda
    Rwandan Genocide
    The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days through mid-July, over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate...

     and Burundi
    Burundi Civil War
    The Burundi Civil War was an armed conflict lasting from 1993 to 2005. The civil war was the result of long standing ethnic divisions between the Hutu and the Tutsi tribes in Burundi...

    .
  • 1999: Staff, Associated Press
    Associated Press
    The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

    , for its portfolio of images following the embassy bombing in Kenya and Tanzania
    1998 United States embassy bombings
    The 1998 United States embassy bombings were a series of attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998, in which hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the East African capitals of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. The date of the...

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