Carolyn Cole, Pulitzer Prize winner & former Ohio University graduate student, to speak this week
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Carolyn Cole will be discussing her career during a visit to Ohio University.
She is speaking Thursday, May 21 at 7:30 p.m. in 135 Walter Hall.
The event is sponsored by the student chapter of the National Press Photographers Association Ohio University (NPPAOU) and the School of Visual Communication. It is free and open to the public. There will be posters featuring her work for sale.
Cole is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, where she has spent fifteen years covering national and international news. Her coverage of the civil crisis in Liberia won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
Cole is a two-time winner of the Robert Capa Gold Medal for war photography from the Overseas Press Club of America for her work in Iraq and Liberia (2003) and her photographs of the siege of the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem (2002). She has earned four World Press photo awards and was named newspaper photographer of the year four times.
She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas. Cole is a former Ohio University graduate student.
