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Name
  
Renee Byer

Spouse
  
Paul Kitagaki, Jr.

Role
  
Photojournalist

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Awards
  
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography

Renee byer photojournalist


Renée C. Byer (born in 1958 in Yonkers, New York) is the senior photojournalist at The Sacramento Bee, where she has worked since 2003.

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Byer is a documentary photojournalist. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for her "A Mother's Journey" feature photo.[1] "A Mother's Journey" was a series of photos, over the course of a year, about a boy at the age of 11 years who was battling neuroblastoma, a type of cancer.

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Byer was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2013, "For her heartwarming photographs of a grandfather raising three grandchildren after the violent death of his daughter and the loss of his wife to cancer."[2]

Byer is married to Paul Kitagaki, Jr., the senior photographer at The Sacramento Bee.

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Awards

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  • 2017 The White House News Photographers Association Multimedia documentary award in the annual ‘Eyes of History®’ competition, "No Safe Place." 1st Place"
  • 2016 EPPY for Best Photojournalism: E&P named "No Safe Place" it's EPPY award winner for best photojournalism of a website with at least 1 million unique monthly visitors. The special report is infused with poignant photography by Bee photojournalist Renée C. Byer that captures the refugees' struggles in Sacramento.
  • 2016 Inland Press Association, 1st Place News Picture Photography - Picture Story Renée C. Byer , The Sacramento Bee, "No Safe Place."
  • 2016 Inland Press Association, 1st Place Creative Use of Multimedia, "No Safe Place"
  • 2016 SPJNORCAL, 1st Place Community Journalism (Print/Online), "No Safe Place"
  • 2016 SPJNORCAL, 1st Place Photojournalism (Photo Essay), "No Safe Place"
  • 2015 Best of Photojournalism, Nature and Environmental Picture Story, National Press Photographers Association, First Place
  • 2015 World Understanding Award, Pictures of the Year International, Finalist
  • 2015 Scripps Howard Photojournalism Award, Finalist
  • 2015 LensCulture Earth Awards, Documentary Series on electronic waste, Second Place
  • 2013 Pulitzer Prize, Feature Photography, The Sacramento Bee, Finalist
  • 2013 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, Finalist
  • 2007 Pulitzer Prize, Feature Photography, “A Mother’s Journey,” The Sacramento Bee, Winner
  • 2007 World Understanding Award, Pictures of the Year International, Winner
  • 2007 Multimedia Feature Picture Story, Pictures of the Year International
  • 2007 Days Japan International Photojournalism Award, Second Place
  • 2007 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, Winner
  • 2007 Photo of the Year Award, The United Nations Children Emergency Fund, Honorable Mention
  • 2007 Award of Excellence, Feature Photography, Pictures of the Year International
  • 2007 Feature Photo Story, American Society of Newspaper Editors, Finalist
  • 2007 Newspaper Series, Pictures of the Year international, Third Place
  • 2007 Award of Excellence, Photography, Multiple Photos, Society of News Design
  • 2005 Harry Chapin Media Award for World Hunger in Photojournalism
  • 2005 Best of Photojournalism, Nature and Environmental Picture Story, National Press Photographers Association, First Place
  • 2005 McClatchy President’s Award
  • 2004 Mark Twain Award for Excellence in News Photography, Associated Press
  • 2004 Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Finalist

    • Book Awards

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  • 2014 IPA Documentary Book Award, Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces of the World’s Poor, First Place
  • 2014 Moscow International Foto Awards, Documentary Book, Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces of the World’s Poor, Honorable Mention

    • Solo Exhibitions and Presentations

  • 2017 Western Kentucky University MMTH Gallery and Atrium, Bowling Green, Kentucky
  • 2016 Global Women Leaders’ Forum: Inspiring the Next Generation of Leaders, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 2016 Month of Photography Los Angeles, California; official exhibition
  • 2015 Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, California
  • 2014 Visa Pour L’Image Festival of the Photograph, Perpignan, France; video presentation
  • 2014 Hartmann Center Art Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
  • 2010 Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz
  • 2007 Sage Moon Gallery, LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, Virginia
  • 2007 Hartmann Center Art Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
  • 2007 Muroff-Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, State University of New York, Stone Ridge, New York
  • 2007 Palm Beach Photographic Centre, Palm Beach, Florida
  • 2007 Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California

    • Selected Group Exhibitions

  • Present- 2007 Permanent, The Pulitzer Photographs Gallery, Newseum, Washington, D.C.
  • 2014 International Photography Awards Winners for Best of Show; Splashlight Studios, New York City; Espace Beaurepaire Gallery, Paris, France; Beijing Academy of Art, Beijing, China; Chiang Mai Festival of Photography, Rooftop Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2014 Tech Awards Gala, San Jose, California; video presentation
  • 2010 Pictures of the Year International 2009, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, California
  • 2008 Photokina, Cologne, Germany
  • 2007 Days Japan International photojournalism exhibit, Yokohama, Japan
  • 2007 FotoWeek, Washington, D.C.
  • 2007 Angkor Wat photography festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia
  • 2007 International Children’s Cancer Day, Madrid, Spain

    • Publications by Byer

  • 2014 Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces of the World’s Poor, The Quantuck Press, Thomas Nazario
  • 2010 A Mother’s Journey and Selected Photographs, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY, New Paltz

    • Contributor to Publications

  • 2015 We the Children, Edition Lammerhuber, collaboration with The United Nations Children Emergency Fund, Germany and GEO Magazine
  • 2015 Moments: The Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographs, collaboration with Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc.
  • 2015 21st Century Reading Student Book 1: Creative Reading and Thinking with TED Talks, Cengage, collaboration with TED and National Geographic Learning; 15th Edition
  • 2014 The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment, Newseum; 2010 and 2014 editions
  • 2010 The Mercy Project, Mado-sha Publishing Co.
  • 2008 The American Soldier from the Civil War to the War in Iraq: A Photographic Tribute, Business of Entertainment Inc.
  • 2008 America at Home, Running Press
  • 2008 Photojournalism: The Professionals’ Approach, Focal Press; 6th edition multiple
  • 1990 Book of Days, Dorsoduro Press
  • 1987 Best of Photojournalism 11, National Press Photographers Association
  • 1983 Best of Photojournalism 8, National Press Photographers Association

    • TV, Film, and Radio

  • 2014 NBC's Depth of Field with Ann Curry, “Living on a Dollar a Day: Reality of Extreme Poverty Revealed,” interview
  • 2014 ABC's Real Biz with Bob Woodruff and Rebecca Jarvis, “'Living on a Dollar a Day' - Shocking Photos from Around the World,” interview
  • 2014 NBC's Depth of Field with Ann Curry, “Love and Loss - A Family's Struggle with Childhood Cancer,” interview
  • 2014 The Photography Channel, “Renée C. Byer - A Mother's Journey,” interview
    • Renée C. Byer Rene C Byer Living on a Dollar a Day zPhotoJournal

    References

    Renée C. Byer Wikipedia
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