Carol Guzy (born March 7, 1956) is an American news photographer. Guzy worked as a staff photographer for the ''

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'' from 1980 to 1988 and ''

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'' from 1988 to 2014. As of April 2022, Guzy is a contract photographer for ZUMA Press. She won the

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four times — one of five people to do so, and the first journalist with that achievement. Guzy was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1986, 1995, 2000 and 2011.

Life and career

Guzy was born into a working-class family in

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, where she grew up. She graduated with an

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in nursing from Northampton Community College in 1977, and planned to work as a nurse until taking a darkroom class. In 1980, she earned an associate degree in applied science in photography from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Afterward she became an intern, and then a photographer, at ''

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''. She married

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photographer Jonathan Utz in 1988. That year she also moved to ''

'', following her husband to a job in the city. They divorced in 1998. In 1990, Guzy was the first woman to receive the Newspaper Photographer of the Year Award, presented by the

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. She was detained by police and arrested on April 15, 2000, as a part of the IMF World Bank detentions. In 2001, she was awarded the Northampton Community College Alumni Association's Professional Achievement Award. Upon receiving it, Guzy said, Besides her work in ''The Washington Post'', Guzy's work has appeared on the Photography Channel. In August 2007, Guzy's photos of animals left behind on the

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, where she spent months in the aftermath of

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, 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. Guzy lives in

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Pulitzer Prizes

Guzy is one of only five people to win the Pulitzer Prize four times.

Awards

* 1986

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, Guzy and Michel du Cille, ''The Miami Herald''Spot News Photography"
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-29. "More details" 1995 (not available 1986) includes short biography and gallery of 10 works (1994 photos). * 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, Guzy, ''The Washington Post'' * 2000

Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography is one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It recognizes a distinguished example of feature Feature may refer to: Computing * Feature recognition, could be a hole, poc ...

, Guzy, Michael Williamson and Lucian Perkins, ''The Washington Post'' * 1990; 1993; 1997 Photographer of the Year awards in the National Press Photographers' annual contest * 2009 Best of Photojournalism, Enterprise Picture Story,

* 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (International Photo) * 2009 The Hillman Prize, Photo-journalism * 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti, ''The Washington Post'' * 2012 Photographer of the Year, Photo Imaging Manufacturers and Distributors Association (PMDA) annual awards *2013 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism "In recognition of her creative and principled use of the camera in pursuit of compassion and social justice" *201
Robert Capa Gold Medal Award
for her reportage about the effects of the war against ISIS on the civilian population of Mosul *201
Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media
presented by th
Newseum
(Washington, D.C.) *202
White House News Photographers Association Lifetime Achievement Award
presented in Washington, D.C.

Selected works

"1st Place, Enterprise Picture Story (large markets)", ''Best of Photojournalism''"Tapestry of Life: Essay and Photos by Carol Guzy"
''Poynter Online'', Feb. 23, 2000

References

External links

"Interview with Carol Guzy," January 2002
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C-SPAN ''Q&A'' interview with Guzy, May 1, 2011
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