Scott Strazzante (born March 11, 1964) is an American
photojournalist
Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such ...
at the ''
San Francisco Chronicle
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''. As a member of the ''
Chicago Tribune'' staff, he co-won the 2008
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
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for a series about faulty government regulation of dangerously defective toys, cribs and car seats.
Education
He grew up in
Chicago and graduated from
Ripon College, where he majored in business management and art (1982–86).
Career
He has been published in
National Geographic Magazine
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,
Mother Jones Magazine
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,
Sports Illustrated
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, and other publications.
Strazzante's Common Ground project has been published in National Geographic and made into a video by
MediaStorm
MediaStorm is a New York City-based film production and interactive design studio. The company produces online news stories using high-quality photography, audio, interactivity, and video, and consults on interactive web projects. ''Seattle Post-In ...
.
He is a former Illinois Press Photographer Association President (2001–2010) and
National Press Photographers Association
The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) is an American professional association made up of still photographers, television videographers, editors, and students in the journalism field. Founded in 1946, the organization is based in ...
Region 5 Director and Associate Director (1999–2005).
Strazzante is a prolific
street photographer using his iPhone with
Hipstamatic
Hipstamatic is a digital photography application for iPhone sold by Hipstamatic, LLC. It uses the phone's camera to allow the user to shoot photographs, to which it applies a number of software filters to make the images look as though they wer ...
app.
Awards
He is an eleven-time Illinois Photographer of the Year.
He was awarded National Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 2000 and National Newspaper Photographer of the Year runner-up in 2007.
References
External links
Chicago Tribune Shooting from the Hip blogChicago Tribune- "New York Remembers 9/11"Scott Strazzante photoshelter.com
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American photojournalists
Living people
1964 births