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Renée C. Byer
With over 20 years of experience in the media industry, Renée C. Byer is an accomplished award-winning photographer, designer and picture editor. She has taken honors from the National Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year, Society for News Design, Associated Press, and the Best of the West photo and design contest. Most recently, her feature photo "Nude Queen" captured the AP News Executives Council top honor, the Mark Twain Award.
Byer has been a staff photographer at The Sacramento Bee for the past two years. She joined The Bee from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer where her photography was a finalist for a Dart Award for excellence in reporting on victims of violence. Byer is a long-time newspaper photographer who has worked around the country at a number of top dailies including the Peoria Journal Star (Peoria, IL), Statesman Journal (Salem, OR), The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) and the Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT), among others.
zKUDO'S To Renée!
April 20,2007
Photographer Renée C. Byer has been awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for her work in "A Mother's Journey," a series that chronicled a dying boy's final year. "In a situation like this, your instincts as a person are to try to help," she said. "But as a journalist, you have to step back and let things unfold as they naturally would. It can be very, very painful. I was documenting a story that needed to be told, and it was a gift to be allowed to be there. Throughout, I had a bigger vision that -- because of what I was witnessing -- it would bring hope to other families."
"Renée is more than an amazing photojournalist, she is good people. Rarely has the Pulitzer gone to a more deserving person. I am very proud to have featured this epic story in zReportage.com and in just released DOUBLEtruck Magazine Issue 7." Says a proud Scott Mc Kiernan.
zReportage Story:
Seeds of Doubt
Dying a Day at a Time: A Mother's Journey
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