Carol Guzy

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Carol Guzy
Born 1956
Pennsylvania
Nationality American
Occupation Photographer
Known for Photography

Carol Guzy (born March 7, 1956 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is a four-time Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post photographer.[1]

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Life and career [edit]

Guzy grew up in a working-class family in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

She graduated with an associate's degree in nursing in 1977 from Northampton Community College and planned to work as a nurse until a friend gave her a camera.[2][3] In 1980, she earned an associate's degree in applied science in photography from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.[4] Afterward, she became an intern, and then a photographer, at the Miami Herald. She married United Press International photographer Jonathan Utz in 1988. In 1988, she moved to The Washington Post,[5] 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.[6]

She was detained by police and arrested on April 15, 2000 as a part of the IMF World Bank detentions.[7]

In 2001, 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.[8] [9]

Besides her work in the Washington Post, Guzy's work has appeared on the Photography Channel.[10]

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.[11]

Guzy lives in Arlington, Virginia.[12][13]

Awards [edit]

Works [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Guzy, Carol". UXL Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2003. 
  2. ^ "Northampton Magazine Winter 2001". Issuu.com. 2010-04-02. Retrieved 2012-12-16. 
  3. ^ Photographer biography, The Washington Post site
  4. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes | Biography". Pulitzer.org. 1968-12-31. Retrieved 2012-12-16. 
  5. ^ Washington Post biography
  6. ^ 1st woman to receive Newspaper Photographer of the Year Award, Alumni Network
  7. ^ "Reporters arrested covering violence in D.C., Miami, war in Chechnya | Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press". Rcfp.org. 1985-03-16. Retrieved 2012-12-16. 
  8. ^ http://www.northampton.edu/Documents/Offices/Foundation/pubs/MagWin2001.pdf
  9. ^ The Morning Call, "NC Honors 3-time Pulitzer Winner Alumna Bethlehem Native Carol Guzy, Wins Professional Achievement Award For Her Photography," October 26, 2000
  10. ^ "Saved from the Streets," by Carol Guzy, Photography Channel
  11. ^ Benefit exhibit, "Lest We Forget: Three Perspectives on Hurricane Katrina," Discovery Too art gallery, August 2007
  12. ^ [1][dead link]
  13. ^ Rosalind Smith (March, 1999). "Carol Guzy:A Photojournalist’s Story". Shutterbug. 
  14. ^ [2][dead link]
  15. ^ [3][dead link]
  16. ^ [4][dead link]
  17. ^ TWICE.com, "2012 PMDA Award Winners Named," Nov. 1, 2011

External links [edit]

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