Deanne Fitzmaurice
Deanne Fitzmaurice is an American photographer and photojournalist. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2005.[1]
Biography
Born in Melrose, Massachusetts, Fitzmaurice graduated in photography at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, California. Before joining the San Francisco Chronicle, she had contributed to a number of journals including Time and Newsweek. In 2005, she received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for her series illustrating the story of "the near-death of a young Iraqi boy, who was horribly injured by an improvised explosive device, to his triumphal recovery in the United States." Fitzmaurice followed the progress of Saleh Khalaf over 13 months in an Oakland hospital beginning in November 2003.[2]
While at the San Francisco Chronicle, in 2004 she was awarded the Casey Medal and the Mark Twain Award. The celebrities she photographed included Barack Obama, Steven Spielberg and Jerry Seinfeld.[3] She worked for the Chronicle until 2008.
In 2005, together with her husband, Kurt Rogers, she was one of the co-founders of Think Tank Photo, which produces camera bags.[4]
Published works
- Fitzmaurice, Deanne; Ryan, Joan (2010). Freak Season. K & D Photography, Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-615-42839-0.
References
- ↑ "The 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Feature Photography", The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ↑ Fischer, Heinz Dietrich (2011). Picture Coverage of the World: Pulitzer Prize Winning Photos. LIT Verlag Münster. pp. 212–. ISBN 978-3-643-10844-9. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ↑ "Pulitzer Prize–Winning Photography Grad Shares Her Experience & Insight", Academy of Art University. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ↑ "Deanne Fitzmaurice", MediaStorm. Retrieved 3 March 2013.