Mary Chind-Willie

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Mary Chind-Willie
Born (1967-05-29) May 29, 1967 (age 56)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPhotographer
SpouseTroy Willie

Mary Chind-Willie (born May 29, 1967) [1] is a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer. [2]

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Biography

Chind-Willie was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. She is a 1989 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in graphic design and communications. [1] Currently, she lives in an in Altoona, Iowa with her husband, Troy Willie. [3]

Career

Chind-Willie is an independent photographer working in Iowa. In 1999 she joined the Des Moines Register where she worked until 2014. Previously Chind-Willie has worked for The Sierra Vista Herald as well as The Tucson Citizen . [4]

Awards

While working for the Des Moines Register, Chind-Willie won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for a photo showing a construction worker, Jason Oglesbee, attempting to rescue Patricia Ralph-Neely from a flooded river. [5] [6] The Pulitzer Prizes described the photograph as "the heart stopping moment when a rescuer dangling in a makeshift harness tries to save a woman trapped in the foaming water beneath a dam." [7] Attempts to rescue the woman, trapped in the turbulence of water churning underneath a dam had been futile, so Oglesbee wrapped himself in chains and had a construction crane lower him to within reach of the woman. In the photograph, you don't see the woman, but simply her outstretched hand. Ultimately, she was saved. [8]

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