Martha Rial
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Martha Rial’s photographs have received international acclaim, including a Pulitzer Prize for work documenting the lives of Burundian and Rwandan survivors of the 1994 genocide.
Rial recently contributed to The Marcellus Shale Documentary Project, a traveling exhibition of photographs chronicling the impact of the shale gas drilling in Pennsylvania. Her solo exhibition depicting child empowerment In Uganda, A School to Call Home was on display at Gallery 937in downtown Pittsburgh last year.
Her work can be founded in the permanent collections at the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Newseum in Washington D.C.
Rial worked as a staff photographer for the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times) and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Her work has earned the Scripps Howard Foundation Award for Photojournalism, a National Headliner Award and the Distinguished Visual Award from the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors. She was also named Pennsylvania News Photographer of the Year.
She is a master class instructor at the Chautauqua Institution and a graduate of Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication. Rial received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Point Park University in April 2017.
1998 - Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
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