Christina House

{{Short description|American photojournalist}}

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{{awd|Cliff Edom New America Award|2021|||National Press Photographers Association}}

|{{awd|Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography|2023}}

|{{awd|Winner, Domestic Photography|2023|||Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award}}

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Christina House is an American photojournalist who works for the Los Angeles Times.

Early life and education

House grew up in Long Beach, California and is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton.{{Cite web |date=2025-04-28 |title=Christina House |url=https://www.latimes.com/people/christina-house |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}

Career

She worked as a freelance photographer for 10 years and since 2017 has been a staff photojournalist at the Los Angeles Times. She won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for a piece about what it's like to be unhoused and pregnant on the streets of Hollywood for a young mother. House was part of a three-person team that also included reporter Gale Holland and videographer Claire Hannah Collins.{{Cite web |date=2022-07-19 |title=Intergenerational poverty handcuffs some Angelenos to homelessness |url=https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/homeless-abuse/unhoused-pregnant |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=KCRW |language=en}}

Awards

  • 2010: The Howard Chapnick Award, Missouri Photo Workshop, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Missourihttps://missouriphotoworkshop.org/62/awards/
  • 2021: First Place, Cliff Edom New America Award, Best of Photojournalism Winners, National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), for "Mckenzie"{{Cite web |title=2021 Best of Photojournalism Winners |url=https://nppa.org/news/17 |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=NPPA}}
  • 2023: Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, Pulitzer Prize, Columbia University, New York for "Hollywood's Finest"{{Cite web |date=2023-05-09 |title=AP wins public service, photo Pulitzers for Ukraine coverage |url=https://apnews.com/article/2023-pulitzer-prizes-e95c689997429071513d377cc209ae4b |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=AP News |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Christina House of the Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/christina-house-los-angeles-times |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=www.pulitzer.org |language=en}}
  • 2023: Winner, Domestic Photography category, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, for "Hollywood's Finest"{{Cite web |date=2023-05-03 |title=Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Announces 2023 Book and Journalism Awards Winners |url=https://rfkhumanrights.org/press/robert-f-kennedy-human-rights-announces-2023-book-and-journalism-awards-winners/ |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights |language=en-US}}

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