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The 1995 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Spot News Photography

The Washington Post, by Carol Guzy

For her series of photographs illustrating the crisis in Haiti and its aftermath.
Carol Guzy and George Rupp
Carol Guzy is presented with the 1995 Pulitzer Prize by Columbia University President George Rupp.

Winning Work

Biography

Carol Guzy is a staff photographer for The Washington Post. She graduated in 1978 with an associate's degree in registered nursing from Northhampton County Area Community College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, her hometown. A change of heart led her to study photography at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she graduated in 1980 with an applied science associate's degree in photography.

While at the Art Institute she interned at the Miami Herald which hired her as a staff photographer upon her graduation. After eight years there during which she won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography (as one of a two-member team covering the Armero, Columbia mudslide), she moved to Washington, D.C. to become a staff photographer for The Washington Post.

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Spot News Photography in 1995:

David Leeson

For his photograph of a Texas family moving through chest-high flood waters, a group he ultimately led to safety.

Denis Farrell

For his aerial-view photograph of hundreds of South Africans lined up to vote in the country's first all-race elections.

The Jury

Bob Mong(chair )

managing editor

Maggie Balough

editor

Neville Green

managing editor

Gary Fong

director of photography

John Kaplan*

director

Winners in Spot News Photography

1994

Paul Watson

For his photograph, published in many American newspapers, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu by a mob of jeering Somalis.
1992

Staff

For photographs of the attempted coup in Russia and the subsequent collapse of the Communist regime.
1991

Greg Marinovich

For a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress brutally murdering a man they believed to be a Zulu spy.
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1995 Prize Winners

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