A staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times for nearly 20 years, Carolyn Cole has covered some of the world’s most important events over the course of her career. In the past decade, Ms. Cole won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the civil conflict in Liberia, and was named a Pulitzer finalist five times for her work on the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Kenyan elections, the Israel-Gaza conflict, and the siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. In addition, Carolyn Cole has received two Robert Capa Awards and been honored on multiple occasions by such prominent organizations as World Press Photo and Sigma Delta Chi. In 2006, she was named Photojournalist of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association.
Featured in the recent “War/Photography” exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Carolyn Cole has also shown her work at the Houston Museum of Art, the Stephen Cohen Gallery, the Visa Pour L’Image, and elsewhere. Ms. Cole holds a bachelor of arts in photojournalism from the University of Texas and a master of fine arts in photography from Ohio University.
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