Annie Wells (photographer)
{{Short description|American photographer}}
Annie Wells (born March 24, 1954) is an American photographer,{{cite web|url=http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=entity_detail&entity_id=13227|title=CLARA|website=clara.nmwa.org|access-date=2010-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721213227/http://clara.nmwa.org/index.php?g=entity_detail&entity_id=13227|archive-date=2011-07-21|url-status=dead}} winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.{{cite web|url = http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/6846 | accessdate = 31 March 2016 | publisher = The Pulitzer Prizes | title = Annie Wells of The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, CA}}
Life and career
She graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in 1981,{{Cite web |url=http://www.ucsc.edu/oncampus/currents/97-04-14/pulitzer.htm |title=UCSC grad wins Pulitzer: 04-14-97 |access-date=2010-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527160905/http://www.ucsc.edu/oncampus/currents/97-04-14/pulitzer.htm |archive-date=2010-05-27 |url-status=dead }} and studied photojournalism at San Francisco State University{{cite web|url=http://www.sfsu.edu/~hotshots/journalism.html |title=Broadcasting and Journalism - Alumni Hot Shots - San Francisco State University |accessdate=2010-04-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902085633/http://www.sfsu.edu/~hotshots/journalism.html |archivedate=2013-09-02 }} where she was part of a group that won the RFK public service award.
She worked as a photographer for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat,{{cite web|url=http://alt.tnt.tv/specials/moi/photo_creek.html |title=Moment of Impact |accessdate=2010-01-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105210832/http://alt.tnt.tv/specials/moi/photo_creek.html |archivedate=2009-01-05 }} San Francisco bureau Associated Press, the Greeley Tribune in Greeley, Colorado, and the Herald Journal in Logan, Utah.{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/biography/1997-Spot-News-Photography|title=1997 Pulitzer Prizes |website=www.pulitzer.org}}
She joined the Los Angeles Times in 1997.{{cite web|url=http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/10/list_of_la_times_departur.php|title=List of L.A. Times departures *|website=LA Observed}}
In October 2008, she was laid off from the Los Angeles Times.{{cite news| url=http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/in_n_out/included_in_the_lat_layoffs_list_annie_wells_98759.asp| title=Included In The LAT Lay-Offs List: Annie Wells| date= Oct 28, 2008| work=Fishbowl LA}}
She is a survivor of breast cancer.{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UQ6gJMsiOJgC&q=Annie+Wells+photographer&pg=RA1-PA148| chapter=Face to Face with Breast Cancer| title=Photojournalism: the professionals' approach| author=Kenneth Kobré| author2=Betsy Brill| publisher=Gulf Professional Publishing| year= 2004| isbn= 978-0-240-80610-5 }}
Award
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110725112659/http://www.broowaha.com/articles/713/interview-with-glenn-koenig-photographer-for-the-la-times "Interview with Glenn Koenig", BrooWaha, February 11, 2007 ]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100109155333/http://www.rfkcenter.org/ourwork/journalismawards RFK Journalsim Awards]
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Category:Photographers from California
Category:Los Angeles Times people
Category:University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
Category:San Francisco State University alumni
Category:Pulitzer Prize for Photography winners