PRESTON GANNAWAY, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Preston Gannaway is a staff photographer at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va. She spent a year on staff at the Rocky Mountain News before its closure in 2009. Prior to that, she was a
photojournalist for the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire (2003-2008). Gannaway's documentary story on the St. Pierre family, Remember Me, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography
in 2008.
She was named the NPPA Regional Photographer of the Year in 2005 and was runner-up in 2008, 2007 and 2006. Her work has also been honored by NPPA's Best of Photojournalism, Pictures of the
Year International, The Society for News Design, Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar and other competitions.
Before working for the Monitor, Gannaway interned at the Santa Fe New Mexican and the Bangor Daily News. A native of North Carolina, she began her career at the Coalfield Progress in rural
southwest Virginia after earning her Bachelor of Arts in fine art photography at Virginia Intermont College.
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RENÉE C. BYER, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Renée C. Byer is a Senior Photojournalist with The Sacramento Bee and the recipient of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for her project
"A Mother's Journey," an intimate portrayal of a single mother's emotional and financial
struggles as her son battled neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer. The story was also awarded the World Understanding Award and second place multimedia feature picture story at
Pictures of the Year International 2007, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for feature photography, the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, second prize in the Days Japan International
Photojournalism Awards and an honorable mention in the UNICEF Photo of the Year Award.
Also a picture editor and designer, Byer is represented by Zuma Press photo agency. Byer's photos have been published in Newsweek Asia, Paris Match, Marie Claire, El Mundo, Days Japan,
Rangefinder, Photo District News, Business Week and most recently in View magazine in Germany. She has taught workshops and had gallery shows in San Francisco, California, Palm Beach,
Florida, Yokohama, Japan, Siem Reap, Cambodia and Madrid, Spain. Her pictures titled "Seeds of Doubt," won the Harry Chapin Award for Photojournalism 2005 and she is also the recipient of
the Associated Press News Executives Council, Mark Twain Award 2004. She was a finalist for a Dart award for victims of violence before coming to the Sacramento Bee 2003. Her numerous
awards include honors from NPPA, POYi, AP, SND, Best of the West and regional contests in photography, picture editing and design.
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ANNIE WELLS, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Annie Wells is a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times. Prior to this, she was a photographer at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Calif., for eight years. She has also been a
technical photographer for Letterman Army Institute of Research on the Presidio in San Francisco. Wells won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for spot news. Her photos are part of the permanent
collection in the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she majored in science writing. She fell in love with the
camera while taking a photojournalism class at the university.
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JANET JENSEN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Janet Jensen is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. She has a B.S. in biochemistry from California Polytechnic State University. Janet attended the University of Missouri School of
Journalism where she received a Masters degree in journalism. After several internships at newspapers spanning the country, Jensen joined the Tacoma News Tribune in 1996. One of Jensen’s
primary focuses while at the TNT has been coverage of Tacoma's ethnically diverse communities. She has traveled to the Philippines, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka for the TNT.
Janet was a finalist in the inaugural Alexia Grant Competition and was recently named 'NPPA Region XI Photographer of The Year for 2007'.
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