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'''Ronald A. Edmonds''' is a [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning [[photographer]]. |
'''Ronald A. Edmonds''' is a [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning [[photographer]]. |
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Ronald A. Edmonds has been an eyewitness to what most have only seen on front pages and in magazines through his lens. As a photojournalist he covered every United States President from Richard Nixon through Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43 to President Barack Obama’s historic victory. His journey has allowed him to photograph summits of world leaders, Presidential inaugurations, shuttle launches, Super Bowls, Summer & Winter Olympics, Cal Ripken's record-breaking game, NBA playoffs, political races, key marches on Washington and almost all the Republican and Democratic National Conventions since 1980. |
Ronald A. Edmonds has been an eyewitness to what most have only seen on front pages and in magazines through his lens. As a photojournalist he covered every United States President from Richard Nixon through Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43 to President Barack Obama’s historic victory. His journey has allowed him to photograph summits of world leaders, Presidential inaugurations, shuttle launches, Super Bowls, Summer & Winter Olympics, Cal Ripken's record-breaking game, NBA playoffs, political races, key marches on Washington and almost all the Republican and Democratic National Conventions since 1980. |
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Ronald A. Edmonds is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer. Ronald A. Edmonds has been an eyewitness to what most have only seen on front pages and in magazines through his lens. As a photojournalist he covered every United States President from Richard Nixon through Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43 to President Barack Obama’s historic victory. His journey has allowed him to photograph summits of world leaders, Presidential inaugurations, shuttle launches, Super Bowls, Summer & Winter Olympics, Cal Ripken's record-breaking game, NBA playoffs, political races, key marches on Washington and almost all the Republican and Democratic National Conventions since 1980.
After spending a few years freelancing for United Press International Edmonds started his first staff photographer job at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1972. Edmonds an avid surfer fit right in with his new position which allowed him to surf in the early mornings and cover the news the rest of the day. After five years he was promoted to Chief Photographer and traveled through out the Pacific including American Samoa, Hawaiian Islands, Midway Island, Wake Island covering assignments which included Emperor Hirohito's visit, Elvis Presley's world wide televised concert, and the return of POW's from Vietnam through Wake Island.
Edmonds often said the happiest times in his career were the years he photographed the people and sights of Hawaii during his days with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Edmonds moved on to cover major world events, but he felt his images during his stay in Hawaii had more immediate impact as he chronicled the lives and problems of everyday families in Hawaii, and often times the images brought immediate results.
Edmonds was approached by United Press International in 1978 and left the Bulletin and accepted the position of Newspicture Bureau Manager for United Press International in Sacramento, California. He covered a wide range of assignments for UPI, everything from the Mark Twain frog jumping contest to the Mt. St. Helens eruption. Some of his major assignments for UPI included the Winter Olympics, NBA playoffs, NCAA basketball finals, Presidential campaigns including Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign and inauguration in 1980.
Edmonds 28-year tenure with The Associated Press in Washington began in 1981 and ended in 2009 when he retired as the AP's Senior White House Photographer. Edmonds covered White House, summits, inaugurations, shuttle launches, Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics and international stories around the world. Edmonds was one of the early pioneers involved in the early use of digital cameras, including using an experimental electronic camera to transmit to newspapers around the world the first photos of President George H.W. Bush's inauguration, forty seconds after he put his hand down after being sworn in.
In 1981 Edmonds was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in spot news photography for his coverage of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan's life March 30, 1981.
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography , ASSOCIATED PRESS MANAGING EDITORS AWARD, GRAND DIPLOMA FROM THE WORLD PRESS AWARDS, GOLDEN EYE AWARD, THE WORLD PRESS ASSOCIATION, DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD, SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST, NATIONAL HEADLINERS AWARD FOR SPOT NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY, VARIOUS AWARDS FROM WHITE HOUSE NEWS PHOTOGRAPHERS, ASSOCIATION AND THE NATIONAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION.