Annie Wells

Annie Wells (born March 24, 1954) is an American photographer,[1] winner of a Pulitzer Prize.

Life

She graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in 1981,[2] and studied photojournalism at San Francisco State University[3] where she was part of a group that won the RFK public service award.

She worked as a photographer for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat,[4] San Francisco bureau Associated Press, the Greeley Tribune in Greeley, Colorado, and the Herald Journal in Logan, Utah.[5]

She joined the Los Angeles Times in 1997.[6] In October 2008, she was laid off from the Los Angeles Times.[7]

She is a survivor of breast cancer.[8]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=entity_detail&entity_id=13227
  2. ↑ http://www.ucsc.edu/oncampus/currents/97-04-14/pulitzer.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.sfsu.edu/~hotshots/journalism.html
  4. ↑ http://alt.tnt.tv/specials/moi/photo_creek.html
  5. ↑ http://www.pulitzer.org/biography/1997-Spot-News-Photography
  6. ↑ http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/10/list_of_la_times_departur.php
  7. ↑ "Included In The LAT Lay-Offs List: Annie Wells". Fishbowl LA. Oct 28, 2008.
  8. ↑ Kenneth Kobré, Betsy Brill (2004). "Face to Face with Breast Cancer". Photojournalism: the professionals' approach. Gulf Professional Publishing. ISBN 978-0-240-80610-5.

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