Ruth Fremson

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Ruth Fremson
Employer The New York Times
Spouse
John Scurlock
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(m. 2016)​
[1]
AwardsMultiple Pulitzer Prizes (with others)

Ruth Fremson is an American photojournalist and staff photographer for The New York Times . [2]

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Personal life

Fremson was born on Long Island, in New York. [3] She is now married to pilot and aerial photographer John Scurlock. Together they live on Bainbridge Island, Washington, [4] [5] in the metropolitan area of Seattle.

Career

She previously lived in New York City, where she was a photographer of the 9/11 attacks. [6] She has also travelled to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq to document conflicts in the region. [7] [8] [9]

Fremson is a graduate of the Newhouse School of Syracuse University, [10] where she completed a Bachelor's degree. [3] She went on to join a Master's program at Ohio University. [11]

After graduating from Syracuse, she worked an internship for The Washington Times in the summer of 1988. From 1989, she worked as staff for the Times until she joined the Associated Press (AP) in 1994. [12] While working for AP, she covered multiple international events, including the reinstatement of Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the end of the Bosnian Civil War, and the visit of Pope John Paul II to Cuba in 1998. [13] in She was hired by The New York Times in 2000. [14]

In 2016, she appeared on the B&H Photo podcast. [15]

Awards

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  2. ↑ "Last night, staff photographer Ruth Fremson arrived at the Pacific Ocean. Seattle will be the next and final stop on Ruth's road trip west". The New York Times . July 10, 2015. Retrieved 2023-04-15– via Facebook.
  3. 1 2 "Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer to present Global Awareness Lecture Feb. 22". BYU News. 2006-02-15. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
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