Martha Rial (born 1961) is an independent photographer based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is the winner of 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography her photographs of Rwandan and Burundian refugees.
Life
She is a native of the
Pittsburgh
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suburb of
Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
She graduated from the
Art Institute of Pittsburgh and
Ohio University
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with a BFA in 1998.
She was a staff photographer at the ''Ft. Pierce Tribune'', and the ''Journal Newspapers'' in
Alexandria, Virginia
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. In 1994, she became a staff photographer at the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''. Rial also worked as a senior photojournalist at the St Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times) from 2006 to 2009.
In 2005, she had a gallery show at ''The Mattress Factory''.
Awards
* 1998
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
* 1998 National Journalism Award winners, Scripps Howard Foundation
Works
''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' pulitzer work on Rwanda."Homework, no home", ''St. Petersburg Times''"Off Stage: On Hartwood Grounds", ''Pittsburgh Cross Currents''"Martha Rial: Trek of Tears", ''The 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winners''
References
External links
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1961 births
American photographers
Ohio University alumni
Living people
Pulitzer Prize for Photography winners
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette people
American women photographers
People from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
21st-century American women