Ruth Fremson
{{Short description|American photographer and journalist}}
{{Infobox journalist
| name = Ruth Fremson
| employer = The New York Times
| spouse = {{Marriage|John Scurlock|2016}}{{Cite web |title=Romantic Alta – Alta Lodge Love Stories |url=https://blog.altalodge.com/2021/02/18/romantic-alta-alta-lodge-love-stories/ |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=Alta Lodge Blog |date=18 February 2021 |language=en-US}}
| awards = Multiple Pulitzer Prizes (with others)
}}
Ruth Fremson is an American photojournalist and staff photographer for The New York Times.{{Cite web |date=July 10, 2015 |title=Last night, staff photographer Ruth Fremson arrived at the Pacific Ocean. Seattle will be the next and final stop on Ruth's road trip west. |url=https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/posts/10150622841169999/ |access-date=2023-04-15 |work=The New York Times |language=en |via=Facebook}}
Personal life
Fremson was born on Long Island, in New York.{{Cite web |date=2006-02-15 |title=Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer to present Global Awareness Lecture Feb. 22 |url=https://news.byu.edu/news/pulitzer-prize-winning-photographer-present-global-awareness-lecture-feb-22 |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=BYU News |language=en}} She is now married to pilot and aerial photographer John Scurlock. Together they live on Bainbridge Island, Washington,{{Cite web |title=The Monochromatic Mountain: Photographic Flights To The Great Ranges Of Western North America |url=https://cenv.wwu.edu/speaker-series/scurlock |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=College of the Environment |publisher=Western Washington University}}{{Cite news |date=2020-04-21 |title=Still Lives |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/us/coronavirus-photographers-diary.html |access-date=2023-04-15 |issn=0362-4331}} in the metropolitan area of Seattle.
Career
She previously lived in New York City, where she was a photographer of the 9/11 attacks.{{Cite web |last1=Minutaglio |first1=Rose |last2=Feller |first2=Madison |date=2021-09-01 |title='I Wasn't Dressed for War:' Female Reporters on What It Was Like Covering 9/11 |url=https://www.elle.com/culture/a37399201/september-11-anniversary-journalists-reporting/ |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=ELLE |language=en-us}} She has also travelled to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq to document conflicts in the region.{{Cite web |title=Dispatches - Ruth Fremson |url=https://digitaljournalist.org/issue0111/fremson.htm |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=The Digital Journalist}}{{Cite web |title=Ruth Fremson |url=http://www.pwponline.org/blog/tag/ruth-fremson/ |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=Professional Women Photographers Blog |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Fremson |first=Ruth |author-link=Ruth Fremson |date=April 25, 2003 |title=A U.S. Special Forces officer addresses tribal and community leaders in Mosul, Iraq, on April 12. |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2003/04/25/magazine/27empire.2.ready.html |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=The New York Times}}
Fremson is a graduate of the Newhouse School of Syracuse University,{{Cite web |title=Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photojournalist to Visit SUU |url=https://www.suu.edu/news/2006/02/pulitzer-prize-winning-photojournalist-to-visit-suu.html |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=SUU |language=en}} where she completed a Bachelor's degree. She went on to join a Master's program at Ohio University.{{Cite web |title=Advisory Board: POYI JUDGES |url=https://www.poy.org/65/judges.html |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=Pictures of the Year}}
After graduating from Syracuse, she worked an internship for The Washington Times in the summer of 1988. From 1989, she worked as staff for the Times until she joined the Associated Press (AP) in 1994.{{Cite web |date=2015-07-03 |title=Women in Photojournalism, Ruth Fremson & MPD |url=https://newhousempd.syr.edu/blog/2015/07/03/women-photojournalism-ruth-fremson/ |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=MPD |publisher=Syracuse University |language=en-US}} While working for AP, she covered multiple international events, including the reinstatement of Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the end of the Bosnian Civil War, and the visit of Pope John Paul II to Cuba in 1998.{{Cite web |title=Ruth Fremson |url=https://50forward.syr.edu/honoree/ruth-fremson/ |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=50 Forward |publisher=Newhouse School Syracuse University |language=en-US}} in She was hired by The New York Times in 2000.{{Cite web |title=Ruth Fremson |url=https://eddieadamsworkshop.org/biographies/ruth-fremson/ |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=Eddie Adams Workshop |date=16 August 2022 |language=en-US}}
In 2016, she appeared on the B&H Photo podcast.{{Cite web |title=Podcast: The Prize—Two Photojournalists Reflect on Winning a Pulitzer |url=https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/podcasts/photography/podcast-prize%E2%80%94two-photojournalists-reflect-winning-pulitzer |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=B&H Photo |language=en}}
Awards
- 1999 Pulitzer Prize{{Snd}}Feature Photography (with the Associated Press){{Cite web |title=The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Photography: Photo Staff of Associated Press |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/photo-staff-0 |website=The Pulitzer Prizes}}
- 2002 Pulitzer Prize{{Snd}}Feature Photography (with The New York Times){{Cite web |title=The 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Photography: Staff of The New York Times |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-54 |website=The Pulitzer Prizes}}
- 2002 Pulitzer Prize{{Snd}}Breaking News Photography (with The New York Times){{Cite web |title=The 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Breaking News Photography: Staff of The New York Times |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-51 |website=The Pulitzer Prizes}}
References
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Category:People from Long Island
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Category:People from Bainbridge Island, Washington
Category:American women photojournalists
Category:21st-century American women photographers
Category:21st-century American photographers
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Category:American war photographers
Category:Associated Press photographers
Category:Syracuse University alumni
Category:Ohio University alumni