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. The idea of owning my work for the first time in my career really excites me.
Tag: Preston Gannaway
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Photographer Couples: Nicole Frugé and Preston Gannaway
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A Virginia Community Looking for a Safe Harbor
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 Virginian-Pilot. Raised in mountain country, she was captivated by the chance to live seaside on a photographer’s salary. Almost immediately, the majesty of the sea inspired her to make photographs of the area and its people. Now, five years after the ocean lured her, she has published her first book, “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.”
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Preston Gannaway: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | LENSCRATCH
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 elevates her storytelling into cinematic stills, each image insightful and adding to
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/02/preston-gannaway-between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue/
Preston Gannaway’s fine art sensibility elevates her storytelling into cinematic stills, each image insightful and adding to the plot line. For 15 years, she has focused on intimate stories about American families and marginalized communities while addressing themes such as gender identity, class and our relationship to the natural world. The series featured today, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, examines the culture of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.
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Preston Gannaway on bringing intimacy to photography – The Pulitzer Prizes
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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.
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GRAIN adds Preston Gannaway to collective – GRAIN Images
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.
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Where Ocean Property Is Still Affordable — Vantage — Medium
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 that reads “Noreaster Specials.” This is Ocean View, Virginia, in a nutshell.
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Heavy, Beautiful Photos Document The Love of a Dying Young Mom
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 worl
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 world surrounded by family
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Preston Gannaway: A photographer’s look at one young gay man’s life in the South
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, where she was a staff photographer. Gannaway met Tavaris “Teddy Ebony” Edwards, a 21-year-old gay man living in public housing in Chesapeake, Va., who came out when he was 16. Because Edwards represented several demographics rarely covered in the paper—gay, black, poor—Gannaway decided instead to focus on Edwards and his experience living in Virginia.
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Preston Gannaway — Leap of Faith
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 go to on my own
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photo-journal-preston-gannaway-leap-faith
Not one to rest on her laurels, Gannaway has just taken a leap of faith and left her position as a staff photographer for the Virginian-Pilot to go freelance on the west coast. While she was working and living in Virginia, Gannaway immersed herself in a project right outside her living room window.
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Out in the ‘Hood: Young, Gay and Hoping for Something Better
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
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preston gannaway – between the devil and the deep blue sea | burn magazine
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…
Once a rowdy playground for sailors, the area was rampant with drugs and prostitution. Residents still boast of its edginess. It’s a siren call for transients and misfits. But also a way out from the projects for working class families. For them, the beach is free. And it’s always there.
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Common Ground
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 pride yet seemingly always teetering on the edge of change. Photojournalist Preston Gannaway hopes to tell some of the stories that make this community so unique
Link: Common Ground | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
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Behind the Lens with Preston Gannaway
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 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 Me,” which she created while on staff at the Concord Monitor. In April’s installment of “Behind the Lens,” Gannaway talks about her career as a newspaper photographer, and the hard work and dedication that went into her Pulitzer-winning picture story.
Check it out here.
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Behind the Lens with Preston Gannaway – – PopPhotoApril 2008
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 Me,” which she created while on staff at the Concord Monitor. In April’s installment of “Behind the Lens,” Gannaway talks about her career as a newspaper photographer, and the hard work and dedication that went into her Pulitzer-winning picture story.
Check it out here.
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The inside story behind Preston Gannaway's Pulitzer Prize
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 his family. They have our deepest gratitude.
Gannaway’s winning Pulitzer entry included 19 of the photographs we published last year. The photos are candid, beautiful, intimate, heart-wrenching and sensitive. Five are reprinted in today’s paper, and readers can see a multimedia presentation of the project and read Conaboy’s fine stories at concordmonitor.com. The photo entry sent to the Pulitzer Prize board is also available on the site.
Check it out here.
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2008 Pulitzer Prizes-FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
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.