Nicole Fruge
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco, CA, United States
Nicole Frugé is the Deputy Director of Photography for the San Francisco Chronicle, where she takes a documentary photography approach to better understand the people directly affected by current events and public policy. Frugé and the photo editing team of San Francisco Chronicle were recently named the Best Photo Editing Team by NPPA's Best of Photojournalism competition. The Chronicle picture editing team was also honored by SND and POYi in 2014. Before photo editing, she spent ten years working as a staff photographer for newspapers in Texas and Florida. As a photographer, she received an Award of Excellence for her Photographer of the Year portfolio from Pictures of the Year International and was named the National Press Photographers Association's Region 8 Photographer of the Year for 2008.