Martha Rial

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.

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]

Awards
  • 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography [5]
  • 1998 National Journalism Award winners, Scripps Howard Foundation [6]

Works

References
  1. http://www.answers.com/topic/art-institute-of-pittsburgh
  2. http://www.ohio.edu/ohiotoday/sum98/interest/martha_rial.htm
  3. http://www.post-gazette.com/rial/
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-07-13. Retrieved 2010-01-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/1998-Spot-News-Photography
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-01-05. Retrieved 2010-01-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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