Annie Wells (photographer)

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Annie Wells (born March 24, 1954) is an American photographer, [1] winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. [2]

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Life and career

She graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in 1981, [3] and studied photojournalism at San Francisco State University [4] where she was part of a group that won the RFK public service award.

She worked as a photographer for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat , [5] San Francisco bureau Associated Press, the Greeley Tribune in Greeley, Colorado, and the Herald Journal in Logan, Utah. [6]

She joined the Los Angeles Times in 1997. [7] In October 2008, she was laid off from the Los Angeles Times. [8]

She is a survivor of breast cancer. [9]

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References

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  9. Kenneth Kobré; Betsy Brill (2004). "Face to Face with Breast Cancer". Photojournalism: the professionals' approach. Gulf Professional Publishing. ISBN   978-0-240-80610-5.