Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Carol Guzy
Photographer Carol Guzy is the only person to have received four Pulitzer Prize awards for journalism. She has traveled the globe, seeking light during the darkest tragedies. Here are some of her award-winning photos.
Here, a volcano triggered a mudslide, which covered the town of Armero, Colombia, killing more than 20,000 people in the devastating 1985 tragedy.
Buried Alive: Colombia
Guzy trudged through miles of mud to capture images of the tragedy.
Buried Alive: Colombia
To capture those powerful moments, Guzy tries to connect with the people in her photographs to imagine their suffering.
Buried Alive: Colombia
Guzy’s efforts in Colombia won her and her Miami Herald colleague their first Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography.
Military Intervention in Haiti: Saviors
Jubilant crowds in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, reach up toward U.S. helicopters in 1994 carrying the troops they hoped would restore peace and democracy to a troubled land.
Military Intervention in Haiti: Tears
In the wretched slum of Cite Soleil, a boy who has known only turmoil and repression, economic embargo and unforgiving military rule, weeps.
Military Intervention in Haiti: Mortal Fear
A wife begs an angry crowd not to kill her husband, a former attaché whose past enraged a newly liberated mob. People who for years had seen their fathers killed, their daughters raped and wives beaten were eager for revenge.
Military Intervention in Haiti: Death and Life
A woman carries fruit to market, her basket full even as another life empties onto the streets of Port-au-Prince. On the wall is graffiti “Titid,” the Haitians’ familiar nickname for their beloved President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Military Intervention in Haiti: Taking Control
Shortly after the military intervention of Haiti, a U.S. soldier steps in to protect a man suspected of throwing a grenade into a joyous democracy march, killing and injuring numerous pro-Aristide demonstrators in yet another act of intimidation by para-military thugs. The soldiers arrested him, saving his life from an angry and bitter crowd looking for justice after many years of repression.
Military Intervention in Haiti: Cartwheels
A young boy spins a cartwheel in front of the smoldering headquarters of FRAPH, the organization that many Haitians held responsible for bloodshed during the coup years. U.S. troops had just taken control of the offices and arrested many of its members.
Military Intervention in Haiti: Glimmer of Hope
A moment of joy lights up the gentle face of a child in a Port-au-Prince slum. The tenuous peace and freedom for Haitians was an uncertain respite from the history of turmoil in this troubled land.
Kosovo's Sorrow: Ethnic Cleansing
In 1999 when tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians fled violence in Kosovo, Guzy traveled to the border and captured images of hope and heartache that earned her and her team a third Pulitzer, but the experience brought her to an emotional breaking point.
Kosovo's Sorrow: Reunion
Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, is passed through the barbed wire fence into the hands of grandparents at the camp run by United Arab Emirates in Kukes, Albania.
The members of the large Shala family were reunited here after fleeing Prizren in Kosovo during the conflict. (The grandparents had just crossed the border at Morina). The relatives who just arrived had to stay outside the camp until shelter was available.
The next day members of the family had tents inside. The fence was the scene of many reunions. When the peace agreement was signed, they returned to Prizren to find their homes only mildly damaged. There were tears of joy and sadness from the family as the children were passed through the fence, symbolic of the innocence and horror of the conflict.
Kosovo's Sorrow: Death of a Child
Relatives came to the cemetery in Kukes, Albania, to bury a tiny casket. The mother was still in a hospital and the whereabouts of father unknown, as with many of the Kosovar men who were detained by Serbs. The baby was laid to rest in a part of the city cemetery now reserved for Kosovars.
Kosovo's Sorrow: Nun
Sister Bernadette Ebenhoch, a 43-year-old Franciscan nun from Germany, provides aid for the suffering refugees of Kosovo.
She throws food supplies to Kosovars at a camp in Kukes, Albania, on a day when there were no refugees crossing the border at Morina. She has been in Albania assigned to St. Joseph’s Church for four years.
She and one other nun have cared for at least 800 refugees in the church’s small complex in Fushe Arrez, a three-hour drive from the border in Morina. Money for the operation comes from donations from Germany and Italy. Handing out the supplies requires a grueling schedule.
Kosovo's Sorrow: Children's Joy
The UNICEF program counsels Kosovar children at a camp in Kukes, Albania, after their journey from their troubled land.
Lindita Morina, 9, (with a wreath made by her mother) holds another refugee child during the session. Young refugees are counseled to help them deal with the psychological trauma of their ordeal.
Through poetry, drawing and games they learn to express their emotions. The drawings are most often of the horrors they have seen, of killings and destruction. Their poems speak of freedom. The UNICEF volunteers visit each camp in Kukes on a daily basis. The children eagerly await this part of the day and shower them with love and gratitude.
Haiti Earthquake: Death of Innocence
A Haitian man tries to rescue a teacher trapped amid the rubble of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince as he crawls past a schoolgirl that perished at her desk when Ecole St. Gerard collapsed.
Haiti Earthquake: Rescue
A tiny baby named Reggie Claude was rescued after being trapped in the rubble of his home by international rescue groups from Belgium, Madrid and Castilla Y Leon. Disaster relief workers and family rejoiced as Oscar Vega carried the child through the streets during a moment of hope in a vast ocean of despair.
Haiti Earthquake: The Moment Time Stopped
A woman’s body with one pretty high heel lies in the street.
People were going about their daily lives when the earth shook and forever altered Haiti’s history. Bodies line the streets as survivors desperately tried to rescue schoolchildren from the rubble at St. Gerard Technical School. The students were calling for help on their cell phones as they were trapped.
Haiti Earthquake: Haiti Weeps
The emotional toll and mental wounds of deep loss are etched on the faces of Haitians attending a worship service at Cathedral Notre Dame, which was destroyed in the earthquake. Healing broken hearts may be the most poignant medical challenge facing aid workers.