Media Contact:
Mary Kate Keith, 919/515-2841

Nov. 21, 2003

Friends of NC State Library Host Pulitzer-Winning Photographers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Annie Wells and Stephanie Welsh, both recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for photography, will be the guests of the Friends of the Library of North Carolina State University at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 5, in the Erdahl-Cloyd Theater of D.H. Hill Library on campus. The event, which will feature slide shows of the photographers’ award-winning work, is free and open to the public.

Wells received the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for her photograph of a fireman rescuing a young girl from a raging flood in California. She currently works as a photographer and photo editor for the Los Angeles Times. Her work is part of the permanent collection in the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.

Welsh won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for feature photography of a female circumcision rite in Kenya. She worked as a photojournalist, most recently as a staff photographer for the Palm Beach Post, until 1999. She is now a practicing nurse-midwife in private practice. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University and the Newseum in Arlington, Va.

For more information, call the Friends of the Library at 919/515-2841.

- 30 -