Tag: Preston Gannaway

  • Photographer Couples: Nicole Frugé and Preston Gannaway

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    Link: Preston is on staff at The Virginian-Pilot and I’m a freelancer. I left my job at the San Antonio Express-News to live with Preston and work on personal projects. It’s a sacrifice to give up a good newspaper job in this economy but it doesn’t feel that way. It’s liberating to try something new.…

  • Chimping – A documentary of photojournalists

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    Link: Featuring Pulitzer Prize winners Preston Gannaway and Rick Loomis, Emmy Award winner Paula Lerner, along with Todd Maisel, Chris Usher, Angela Rowlings, Edward Greenberg, Stan Wolfson, and Rita Reed.

  • A Virginia Community Looking for a Safe Harbor

    A Virginia Community Looking for a Safe Harbor

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    A Virginia Community Looking for a Safe Harbor Preston Gannaway’s first book delves into the lives of the residents of Ocean View, a community in flux in the shadow of a sprawling naval base. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/a-virginia-community-looking-for-a-safe-harbor/ Preston Gannaway, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, moved to the neighborhood to begin a staff job at The…

  • Preston Gannaway: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | LENSCRATCH

    Preston Gannaway: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | LENSCRATCH

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    Preston Gannaway: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – LENSCRATCH There are photographers who document people and places, and then there are storytellers who can weave narratives out of the threads of human experience, with the ability to tell stories that are below the surface and often overlooked. Preston Gannaway’s fine art sensibility…

  • Preston Gannaway on bringing intimacy to photography – The Pulitzer Prizes

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    {{(global.pageOgTitle) ? global.pageOgTitle : global.pageTitle}} {{(global.pageDescription) ? global.pageDescription : global.pageDefaultDescription}} Link: http://www.pulitzer.org/article/preston-gannaway-bringing-intimacy-photography Gannaway ‘resolved to invest in a close relationship with my subject.’ That approach led to a Pulitzer Prize for her images of a mother struggling with a terminal cancer diagnosis, and an ongoing relationship with the family.

  • GRAIN adds Preston Gannaway to collective – GRAIN Images

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    GRAIN adds Preston Gannaway to collective Gannaway, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, says her goal is to “continue pursuing stories that are meaningful, stories that ultimately forge connections and enrich viewers’ perspective.” “And to make a living at the same time,” she adds.

  • NPPA $6K Short Grant Winners Announced | NPPA

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    NPPA $6K Short Grant Winners Announced Today the National Press Photographers Association announced the winners of the NPPA’s Short Grants. This year’s winners are Preston Gannaway, Stephen Reiss, Brendan Hoffman, Michael Forster Rothbart, Pete Marovich, and Richard Tsong-Taatarii. The photogr via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/nppa-6k-short-grant-winners-announced ATHENS, GA (April 7, 2015) – Today the National Press Photographers Association…

  • Where Ocean Property Is Still Affordable — Vantage — Medium

    Where Ocean Property Is Still Affordable — Vantage — Medium

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    Where Ocean Property Is Still Affordable Preston Gannaway’s five-year love affair with a seaside town. via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/where-ocean-property-is-still-affordable-ebd60487da52 In one of the many strange scenes in Preston Gannaway’s new book, a ceramic camel peaks out from the side of a bar while water crashes onto the street beside it. The drinking establishment bears a sign…

  • Heavy, Beautiful Photos Document The Love of a Dying Young Mom

    Heavy, Beautiful Photos Document The Love of a Dying Young Mom

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    Heavy, Beautiful Photos Document The Love of a Dying Young Mom – Feature Shoot When Carolynne St. Pierre, a maternity nurse known for her keen wit, was diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer, she knew how she wanted to die. According to Oakland-based documentary photographer Preston Gannaway, St. Pierre wanted to leave this…

  • Preston Gannaway: A photographer’s look at one young gay man’s life in the South

    Preston Gannaway: A photographer’s look at one young gay man’s life in the South

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    Young, Gay, and Black in a Southern Town In 2012, Preston Gannaway was living in Norfolk, Va., looking for a coming-out story to cover for the Virginian-Pilot, where she was a staff… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/11/05/preston_gannaway_a_photographer_s_look_at_one_young_gay_man_s_life_in_the.html In 2012, Preston Gannaway was living in Norfolk, Va., looking for a coming-out story to cover for the Virginian-Pilot,…

  • Preston Gannaway — Leap of Faith

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    Photo Journal: Preston Gannaway — Leap of Faith By Jim ColtonAs a photo editor, I have had the pleasure of being on the other end of the loupe for over 40 years. I have traveled the world through thousands of other eyes. I’ve been to places that I would never have had the opportunity to…

  • Out in the ‘Hood: Young, Gay and Hoping for Something Better

    Out in the ‘Hood: Young, Gay and Hoping for Something Better

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/07/18/out-in-the-hood-young-gay-and-hoping-for-something-better/#1 Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Preston Gannaway began documenting the life of Tavaris “Teddy Ebony” Edwards when they met during Pride week at Norfolk State University last year

  • preston gannaway – between the devil and the deep blue sea | burn magazine

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    preston gannaway – between the devil and the deep blue sea [slidepress gallery=’prestongannaway_betweenthedevilandthedeepbluesea’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Preston Gannaway Between the Devil and the Deep Blue… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2011/02/preston-gannaway-between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 Once a rowdy playground for sailors, the area was rampant with drugs and prostitution. Residents still boast of its…

  • Common Ground

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    Common Ground is a visual commentary on life in our community. Every 12 weeks a new Virginian-Pilot photographer will begin his or her series of photographs based on a topic of their choosing. The current series, Greetings from Ocean View is a photo column aimed at exploring life in “OV,” a Norfolk neighborhood full of…

  • Behind the Lens with Preston Gannaway

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    The photographic community is incredibly diverse, made up of photographers that shoot from the sky to the sea and everywhere in between. Each month we look at a different segment of the industry, interviewing top professional photographers about life, their careers, and what sets their piece of the photographic industry apart from the rest. This…

  • Behind the Lens with Preston Gannaway – – PopPhotoApril 2008

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    This month we focus on Preston Gannaway, a staff photographer at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado. While driving from New Hampshire to Colorado earlier this month, Gannaway learned that she had been named the recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography. The 30-year-old photographer was recognized for her picture story, “Remember…

  • The inside story behind Preston Gannaway's Pulitzer Prize

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    Like much of the journalism we do, the St. Pierre project required that members of the community trust in our ability to tell an important human story. As we at the Monitor celebrate this historic moment for the newspaper, we also recognize our debt to the spirit of Carolynne St. Pierre and to Rich and…

  • 2008 Pulitzer Prizes-FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

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    Photos by Preston Gannaway. Pulitzer warded to Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor for her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness. Check it out here.