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Greg Gibson
I began my career as a photojournalist in 1980 as a college student shooting high school and college sports for the Raleigh News and Observer. In 1984, at the age of 22, I became one of the youngest stat photo editors in wire service history when I was hired by United Press International as their Photo Editor for the state of North Carolina. After a year of working as a full-time photojournalist, I was named North Carolina Photographer of the Year in 1985 by the North Carolina Press Photographers’ Association.
In 1989, I moved to the Washington DC area and started to work for the French news agency, Agence-France Presse (AFP). In six months, I was recognized by the Associated Press (AP), the largest news organization in the world, and became one of their staff photographers.
In 1993, a small group of my AP colleagues and I were awarded The Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 Presidential Campaign. In 1999, I joined another select group of photographers to receive a share of a second Pulitzer Prize, this time for coverage of President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
In 2000, I left the Associated Press on sabbatical, and made the decision to pursue a career in photography that is less invasive and demanding of my family. Now I have turned my camera towards documenting special days and events in the lives of families throughout the Washington DC area.
Doing weddings and portraits has given me a chance to re-explore photography and is a refreshing change after 20 years of working at journalism’s deadline-a-minute pace.
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Website: www.greggibson.com
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