Martha Rial

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Martha Rial
Born1961 (age 6162)
Murrysville, PA
OccupationPhotojournalist
Known for1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
Website martharial.com

Martha Rial (born 1961) is an independent photographer based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is the winner of 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography her photographs of Rwandan and Burundian refugees.

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Life

She is a native of the Pittsburgh suburb of Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

She graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh [1] and Ohio University with a BFA in 1998. [2]

She was a staff photographer at the Ft. Pierce Tribune, and the Journal Newspapers in Alexandria, Virginia. In 1994, she became a staff photographer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. [3] Rial also worked as a senior photojournalist at the St Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times) from 2006 to 2009.

In 2005, she had a gallery show at The Mattress Factory. [4]

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  4. "The Mattress Factory Art Museum". Archived from the original on 2010-07-13. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
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