Carol Guzy

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Carol Guzy (born March 7, 1956 in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania ) is an American press photographer. She is one of only three people - and the only one still alive - to have received four Pulitzer Prizes , America's highest honors for journalistic and literary achievement.

Life

Guzy grew up in a working class family . She originally wanted to work in health and nursing . However, after earning an associate degree in this field at Northampton Community College in her hometown in 1977 , she turned to photography . In 1980 she received an associate degree in applied science in photography at the Art Institute in Fort Lauderdale and then began an internship at the Miami Herald . There she was soon taken on as a permanent employee. She married Jonathan Utz, a United Press International photographer, in 1988 and moved to Washington, DC with him that year . She found a job with the Washington Post , which she has worked for ever since. The couple divorced in 1998.

In 1990, Guzy became the first woman to receive the National Press Photographers Association's (NPPA) Newspaper Photographer of the Year Award at the annual awards ceremony . In the course of large-scale demonstrations against the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank , she was arrested by the police on April 15, 2000 in Washington, DC, along with a colleague from the Associated Press , although she was marked as a press representative. She was released the next day. The Discovery Galleries in Bethesda ( Maryland ) presented in August 2007, the three-artist exhibition "Lest We Forget: Three Perspectives on Hurricane Katrina," contributing to the Guzy photos of abandoned pets that they in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on during long stays the Gulf Coast had made.

Carol Guzy currently resides in Arlington County , Virginia .

Awards

  • 1986: Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
  • 1990: NPPA Newspaper Photographer of the Year Award
  • 1993: NPPA Newspaper Photographer of the Year Award
  • 1995: Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
  • 1997: NPPA Newspaper Photographer of the Year Award
  • 2000: Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
  • 2001: Northampton Community College Alumni Association's Professional Achievement Award
  • 2009: NPPA The Best of Photojournalism in the Enterprise Picture Story (large markets) category
  • 2009: Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in the Grand Prize category (International Photo)
  • 2009: The Hillman Prize in the Photo-journalism category
  • 2011: Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
  • 2012: Photo Imaging Manufacturers and Distributors Association (PMDA) Photographer of the Year

Individual evidence

  1. Guzy's biography on washingtonpost.com ( The Washington Post ). Retrieved October 28, 2012
  2. ^ "Reporters arrested covering violence in DC, Miami, war in Chechnya" on rcfp.org (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press). Retrieved October 28, 2012