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Four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer to discuss her craft on campus

The only journalist to win four Pulitzer Prizes for her reporting is set to visit campus to discuss her career and her craft as a photographer.

Carol Guzy, a freelance photojournalist who spent more than 25 years at The Washington Post, will present a free public lecture at 7 p.m. Nov. 1, in Freeman Auditorium at the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus of Penn State. The event is organized by the Department of Journalism and sponsored by Nikon.

Guzy has earned Photographer of the Year honors from the National Press Photographers Association three times and from the White House News Photographers Association eight times.

In 1986 as a staff photographer for The Miami Herald, Guzy earned her first Pulitzer Prize in the Spot News category for her coverage of the devastating mudslide in Armero, Colombia. Since then, she received Pulitzers for her coverage of the military intervention in Haiti (1995) and her work from the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo (2000). Her most recent Pulitzer Prize came from her coverage of the earthquake in Haiti (2010).

Guzy grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. After completing her associate’s degree to become a registered nurse at Northampton County Area Community College, she decided to attend the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale to study photography and graduated in 1980. She then spent eight years at The Miami Herald (1980-1988) before going to The Washington Post from 1988 to 2014. 

Carol Guzy Credit: Linda AnthonyAll Rights Reserved.

Last Updated June 2, 2021