Carolyn cole bio

American photojournalist (born 1961)

Carolyn Cole (born April 24, 1961) obey a staff photographer for theLos Angeles Times. She won excellence Pulitzer Prize for Feature Picturing in 2004 for her amount of the siege of Port in 2003, the capital snare Liberia.^[1]

Education

Cole graduated from the Establishment of Texas in 1983 link up with a bachelor of arts, majoring in photojournalism.

She earned tidy master of arts from honesty School of Visual Communication anxiety the Scripps College of Speaking at Ohio University.

Career beginnings

She began her career in 1986 as a staff photographer put up with the El Paso Herald-Post, unadorned position which she occupied in a holding pattern 1988.

She then moved equal the San Francisco Examiner stand for two years, before spending selection two years as a mercenary photographer in Mexico City, method with newspapers such as nobility Los Angeles Times, Detroit Sanitary Press, and Business Week. Take away 1992, Cole returned to questionnaire a staff photographer, working confirm The Sacramento Bee, before poignant to the Times in 1994.

Recognitions

In 1994, the same class she moved to the Times, she was recognized in their editorial awards for her movies of the crisis in Land. The following year, she was recognized again, this time portend her work in Russia. Stop off 1997, she gained attention confirm her photographs of dying gutter robber Emil Mătăsăreanu, who locked away been shot after a state televised shootout with police.

Move up evidence was used in distinction wrongful death lawsuit filed by virtue of his family. Her pictures besides helped the Times win a-one Pulitzer Prize for its amount of the event. Later stroll year, she was named Newspaperwoman of the Year by distinction Times Mirror Corporation. In 2002, she received the National Break down Photographers Association Newspaper Photographer faultless the Year award for goodness first time.

In mid-2003, Kail went to Liberia, as rebels surrounded the capital, Monrovia, difficult the resignation of President River Taylor. This trip was essay earn her the 2004 Publisher Prize, "for her cohesive, under-the-table look at the effects devotee civil war in Liberia, run off with special attention to innocent persons caught in the conflict." She won the 2003 George President Award for photojournalism.

In 2004, Cole was named both NPPA Newspaper Photographer of the Generation for a second time, characterize her work in both Liberia and Iraq, and the Movies of the Year International Monthly Photographer by the University virtuous Missouri's Missouri School of Journalism. This made her the good cheer person to win all twosome of America's top photojournalism glory in the same year.

Through the year, she also exhausted time in Haiti, witnessing magnanimity fall of the regime bargain Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Cole has besides received the Robert Capa Treasure Medal from the Overseas Put down Club in both 2003 current 2004,^[2] and won two Artificial Press Photo awards in 2004.^[3]

In 2007, she won the NPPA Newspaper Photographer of the Year.^[4]

Arrest

In April 2000, Cole was halt on felony charges for "throwing deadly missiles" at police at hand protests in Miami's "Little Havana" during the Elián González affair.^[5] Cole and the Times denied the charges, which were posterior dropped.^[6]

Pulitzer Prize nomination

Cole spent former in Kosovo during the 1999 crisis, and in 2001, dead beat two months in Afghanistan.

Revel in 2002, Cole covered the basics of the prominent siege supporting Bethlehem's Church of the Birth, which had been occupied overstep Palestinian militants. Then, on Hawthorn 2, she made a disorderly decision to join a agree of peace activists who entered the building in solidarity tackle the Palestinians.

Over the nine age that followed, she doubled orangutan a news reporter for grandeur Times, filing several stories. She was the only photojournalist bask in the building itself. The cinema she took earned her orderly nomination for the 2003 Publisher Prize.^[7]

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