Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Carol Guzy, will speak to West Virginia University Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism students and the public Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 28-29, as part of the Dan and Betsy Brown Lecture series.
Guzy is well known for her photojournalistic coverage of the 1994 U.S. military intervention in Haiti and the devastating mudslide in November 1985 in Armero, Colombia.
She has been named Photographer of the Year three times for the National Press Photographers Association, and eight times for the White House News Photographers Association.
The public is invited to a showing of her photography that will be launched at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the WVU Librarys West Virginia&Regional History Collection, 6th Floor. Her lecture on Tuesday will be open to the public and held at 7:30 p.m. in Room 21 White Hall.
The Dan and Betsy Brown Lecture Series, endowed by the native West Virginia couple, began in 2002. Both graduated from WVU in 1959. The Brownsgenerous support of WVU has included establishing the Brown Family Faculty Development Fund for the College of Business and Economics and for the Davis School of Agriculture, Forestry and Consumer Sciences.
We are very pleased to have a nationally recognized photographer of Carol Guzys stature come to West Virginia University to share her experiences and observations with journalism students and members of the local community,said Interim Dean Maryanne Reed.We are especially thankful for the support of the Brown family, whose generosity has made this lecture possible.
Guzy was born in Bethlehem, Pa., where she graduated with an associate’s degree in registered nursing from Northampton County Area Community College. A change of heart led Guzy to the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where she earned an associates degree in applied science in photography.
While at the Art Institute, Guzy had the opportunity to intern at The Miami Herald and upon graduation was hired as a staff photographer. She spent eight years at the newspaper before moving to Washington, D.C., in 1988, where she is a staff photographer at The Washington Post. Her assignments include both domestic and international stories and documentary reporting.