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Peggy Peattie
Peggy Peattie joined the San Diego Union-Tribune as a staff photographer in 1998. Since then, she has produced award-winning stories centered around community journalism, border issues and the environment.
Peattie has a long history working for leading dailies in South Carolina, Los Angeles and Long Beach, California and in Seattle, Washington. She has won a long list awards from the National Press Photographer's Association and the Pictures of the Year international competitions, including Region 10 Photographer of the Year. She has also taught workshops at Western Kentucky University, in Bulgaria and Hungary, and lectured at the Women in Photojournalism Conference. She was a staff photographer for the recent books, America 24/7, California 24/7 and A Day in the Life of the American Woman.
Peattie is a graduate of Ohio University where she studied on a Knight Fellowship, earning an M.A. in Visual Communications. While at O.U. she received a grant from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding to complete her black-and-white documentary on the confederate flag in South Carolina. The resulting project became a book, Down in Dixie.
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