nursing did not feel quite right and i had a camera just to play with. i took a darkroom class and it was a magical experience. it was clearly a defining moment. i decided i would take the risk and try to go and study photography. you have won four pulitzer prizes. how often has that happened in the history of journalism? never, as far as i have heard. this is the first. what is it like winning, and how important is it for someone in your position? it is a prestigious honor, but it is always bittersweet, because it is for stories like the haitian earthquake. it is such a horrible disaster that your work is being honored for, so it is kind of a catch-22 situation. let s look at the video of you getting the award. so the washington post wins a pulitzer prize for breaking news photography. carol guzy, nikki kahn, and ricky carioti. [applause] many of you remember this scene on the news last year on january 12. we received word of a massive earthquake in haiti. we o
nursing did not feel quite right and i had a carry just to play with. i took good dart i took a dark room class and it was a magical experience. it was clearly a defining moment. i decided i would take the risk and try to go and study photography. you have won four pulitzer prizes. how did that happen how often has that happened in the history of journalism? never, as far as i have heard. this is the first. what is it like winning, and how important is it for someone in your position? it is a prestigious honor, but it is always bittersweet, because it gives for stories like that the haitian earthquake. it is such a horrible disaster that your work is being honored for, so it is kind of a catch-22 situation. let s look to the video of you getting the award. so the washington post wins a pulitzer prize for breaking news photography. carol guzy, nikki kahn, and ricky carioti. [applause] many of you remember this scene on the news last year on january 12. we recei
when the people there cannot get it? i had been to haiti so many times, we knew where to head. we went to the dominican republic and drove overland to port-au-prince and were not sure the hotel still standing. we had heard from a haitian photographer who lived there who said the hotel was still standing. journalists. back? it was technical hell, on top of just bearing witness to this tragedy and the physically demanding work. all my equipment crashed. the cell phones, the blackberry, nothing worked for me. i had a colleague and we traveled around together, and without him, there would not paper. it was pretty amazing that nothing worked. he really saved me in that way. it seems like that would be a tense moment if a colleague would not give up one of the cameras. my cameras worked. that was the only thing that worked, but he helped me transmit and get the pictures back to the paper. thing. have you ever been in a situation where nothing worked at all and you could n