Ruth Fremson Explained

Ruth Fremson
Employer:The New York Times
Spouse:[1]
Awards:Multiple Pulitzer Prizes (with others)

Ruth Fremson is an American photojournalist and staff photographer for the The New York Times.[2]

Personal life

Fremson was born on Long Island, in New York.[3] She is now married to pilot and aerial photographer John Scurlock. Together they live on Bainbridge Island, Washington,[4] [5] in the metropolitan area of Seattle.

Career

She previously lived in New York City, where she was a photographer of the 9/11 attacks.[6] She has also travelled to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq to document conflicts in the region.[7] [8] [9]

Fremson is a graduate of the Newhouse School of Syracuse University,[10] where she completed a Bachelor's degree. She went on to join a Master's program at Ohio University.[11]

After graduating from Syracuse, she worked an internship for The Washington Times in the summer of 1988. From 1989, she worked as staff for the Times until she joined the Associated Press (AP) in 1994.[12] While working for AP, she covered multiple international events, including the reinstatement of Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the end of the Bosnian Civil War, and the visit of Pope John Paul II to Cuba in 1998.[13] in She was hired by The New York Times in 2000.[14]

In 2016, she appeared on the B&H Photo podcast.[15]

Awards

References

  1. Web site: Romantic Alta – Alta Lodge Love Stories . 2023-04-15 . Alta Lodge Blog . 18 February 2021 . en-US.
  2. Web site: July 10, 2015 . Last night, staff photographer Ruth Fremson arrived at the Pacific Ocean. Seattle will be the next and final stop on Ruth's road trip west. . 2023-04-15 . . en . Facebook.
  3. Web site: 2006-02-15 . Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer to present Global Awareness Lecture Feb. 22 . 2023-04-15 . BYU News . en.
  4. Web site: The Monochromatic Mountain: Photographic Flights To The Great Ranges Of Western North America . 2023-04-15 . College of the Environment . Western Washington University.
  5. News: 2020-04-21 . Still Lives . en-US . . 2023-04-15 . 0362-4331.
  6. Web site: Minutaglio . Rose . Feller . Madison . 2021-09-01 . 'I Wasn't Dressed for War:' Female Reporters on What It Was Like Covering 9/11 . 2023-04-15 . . en-us.
  7. Web site: Dispatches - Ruth Fremson . 2023-04-15 . The Digital Journalist.
  8. Web site: Ruth Fremson . 2023-04-15 . Professional Women Photographers Blog . en-US.
  9. Web site: Fremson . Ruth . Ruth Fremson . April 25, 2003 . A U.S. Special Forces officer addresses tribal and community leaders in Mosul, Iraq, on April 12. . 2023-04-15 . The New York Times.
  10. Web site: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photojournalist to Visit SUU . 2023-04-15 . SUU . en.
  11. Web site: Advisory Board: POYI JUDGES . 2023-04-15 . Pictures of the Year.
  12. Web site: 2015-07-03 . Women in Photojournalism, Ruth Fremson & MPD . 2023-04-15 . MPD . . en-US.
  13. Web site: Ruth Fremson . 2023-04-15 . 50 Forward . . en-US.
  14. Web site: Ruth Fremson . 2023-04-15 . Eddie Adams Workshop . 16 August 2022 . en-US.
  15. Web site: Podcast: The Prize—Two Photojournalists Reflect on Winning a Pulitzer . 2023-04-15 . . en.
  16. Web site: The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Photography: Photo Staff of Associated Press . The Pulitzer Prizes.
  17. Web site: The 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Photography: Staff of The New York Times . The Pulitzer Prizes.
  18. Web site: The 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Breaking News Photography: Staff of The New York Times . The Pulitzer Prizes.

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