Carol Guzy
Carol Guzy (born March 7, 1956 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is a four-time Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post photographer.
Guzy grew up in a working-class family in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
She graduated with an associate's degree in nursing in 1978 from Northampton Community College and planned to work as a nurse until a friend gave her a camera. In 1980, she earned an associate's degree in applied science in photography from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Afterward, she became an intern, and then a photographer, at the Miami Herald. She marriedUnited Press International photographer Jonathan Utz in 1988. In 1988, she moved to The Washington Post, following her husband to a job in Washington, D.C. They divorced in 1998.
In 1990, Guzy was the first woman to receive the Newspaper Photographer of the Year Award, presented by the National Press Photographers Association.
She was detained by police and arrested on April 15, 2000 as a part of the IMF World Bank detentions. The same year, she was awarded the Northampton Community College Alumni Association's Professional Achievement Award. Upon receiving it, Guzy said, "The nursing program gave me more than a degree. It helped me gain an understanding of human suffering and an incredible sensitivity to it. I know that without this background, my photography would have a totally different edge."
Besides her work in the Washington Post, Guzy's work has appeared on the Photography Channel.
In August 2007, Guzy's photos of animals left behind on the Gulf Coast, where she spent months in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, were included in a three-artist benefit exhibit titled "Lest We Forget: Three Perspectives on Hurricane Katrina" at the Discovery Too art gallery in Bethesda, Maryland.
Guzy lives in Arlington, Virginia.
Awards
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Guzy
Guzy grew up in a working-class family in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
She graduated with an associate's degree in nursing in 1978 from Northampton Community College and planned to work as a nurse until a friend gave her a camera. In 1980, she earned an associate's degree in applied science in photography from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Afterward, she became an intern, and then a photographer, at the Miami Herald. She marriedUnited Press International photographer Jonathan Utz in 1988. In 1988, she moved to The Washington Post, following her husband to a job in Washington, D.C. They divorced in 1998.
In 1990, Guzy was the first woman to receive the Newspaper Photographer of the Year Award, presented by the National Press Photographers Association.
She was detained by police and arrested on April 15, 2000 as a part of the IMF World Bank detentions. The same year, she was awarded the Northampton Community College Alumni Association's Professional Achievement Award. Upon receiving it, Guzy said, "The nursing program gave me more than a degree. It helped me gain an understanding of human suffering and an incredible sensitivity to it. I know that without this background, my photography would have a totally different edge."
Besides her work in the Washington Post, Guzy's work has appeared on the Photography Channel.
In August 2007, Guzy's photos of animals left behind on the Gulf Coast, where she spent months in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, were included in a three-artist benefit exhibit titled "Lest We Forget: Three Perspectives on Hurricane Katrina" at the Discovery Too art gallery in Bethesda, Maryland.
Guzy lives in Arlington, Virginia.
Awards
- 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
- 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
- 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
- 1990; 1993; 1997 Photographer of the Year awards in the National Press Photographers' annual contest
- 2009 Best of Photojournalism, Enterprise Picture Story, National Press Photographers Association
- 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (International Photo)
- 2009 The Hillman Prize, Photo-journalism
- 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
- 2012 Photographer of the Year, Photo Imaging Manufacturers and Distributors Association (PMDA) annual awards
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Guzy