Carol Guzy
Carol Guzy ( born March 7, 1956 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is an American press photographer. She is one of only three people - and of these the only living - that were with four Pulitzer Prizes, the highest U.S. honors for journalistic and literary achievements, excellent.
Life
Guzy grew up in a working-class family. Originally she wanted to work in the health and nursing. But after she had at Northampton Community College their home town gained in this field in 1977, an associate degree, 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 up as a solid employee. She married in 1988 Jonathan Utz, a photographer of United Press International, and went with him in the same year to Washington, DC., Where she found a job with the Washington Post, for which she has worked ever since. The couple divorced in 1998.
1990 Guzy was the first woman who was awarded at the annual awards ceremony of the Newspaper Photographer of the Year Award from the National Press Photographers Association ( NPPA ). In the wake of large-scale demonstrations against the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, it was on April 15, 2000 in Washington, DC arrested together with a colleague from the Associated Press by the police, although it was marked as a press representative. The following day, she was released again. The Discovery Gallery in Bethesda, Maryland, presented in August 2007, the three- artist exhibition " Lest We Forget: Three Perspectives on Hurricane Katrina ," contributed to the Guzy photos of abandoned pets that she at in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina during long stays the Gulf Coast had made.
Carol Guzy currently lives in Arlington County, Virginia.