Along with Carol Guzy, Lynsey Addario and others, they follow in the footsteps of Lee Miller, Gerda Taro or Kati Horna, war and conflict photographers, and Tina Modotti, revolutionary photographer.
Reseña
Carolyn Cole is a photographer whose reporting on armed conflict has earned her many top prizes in photojournalism, including the Pulitzer. She has worked for numerous media and also as a freelancer in Israel, Haiti, Liberia, Kosovo and elsewhere.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and numerous awards for her work on wars and conflicts of all kinds.
Biografía
She graduated with a degree in Journalism with a specialty in Photojournalism from the University of Texas, and she also obtained a Master's degree from Ohio University. She began her career in 1986 working for the El Paso Herald-Post until 1988, when she began working for the San Francisco Examiner. Two years later, she went to work in Mexico as a freelance photographer for newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press and Business Week. In 1992, she worked as a staff photographer for The Sacramento Bee and in 1994 for the Times. From that year, she began to win recognition for her work, including the crisis in Haiti. She twice won the Journalist of the Year award, and in 2002, she received the National Press Photographers Association's Photographer of the Year award (she would win again in 2004 and 2007). In 2003 she went to Liberia in the middle of an armed conflict that earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for her vision of the innocents who were living the conflict. At the same time, she also won the Missouri School of Journalism's photo of the year award, making her the first person to win three of America's top photojournalism awards in the same year. She has also received the Robert Cappa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club twice, and two World Press Photo Awards in 2004.
She made reports on different conflicts, refugee crossings, protests and natural disasters in Bethlehem, Miami, Haiti, Liberia, the border between Mexico and the United States, which were published in different American newspapers.
Depending on the focus, she can be studied in the following subjects:
English: based on articles such as the one quoted from The Guardian, reflect on whether people who report a conflict should intervene in specific situations. She can also be studied as regards her professional life or information on her website, since everything is in English. She can also be used in Citizenship to reflect on human rights, women's rights and gender violence, and how the consideration in society and in legislation has evolved. History: some of her photos can be used to introduce topics of history of the contemporary world.
Documentos
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