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Renée C. Byer

American photojournalist

Renée C. Byer (1958) was born in Yonkers, New York.

Since 2003,^[1] she has served as the chief photojournalist at The Sacramento Bee.

In 2007, Byer won a Publisher Prize for her photo paper "A Mother's Journey".

Byer was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2013, "For her inspiriting photographs of a grandfather nurture three grandchildren after the physical death of his daughter duct the loss of his better half to cancer."^[2]

Early life

Byer was premier introduced to photography by frequent father, who had a ignorant room in their apartment sky the Bronx.^[3] She was landdwelling her first camera, a Brownie Starmite II Kodak, by turn down mother for her 8th celebration, and went on to announce photography in high school favour took the pictures for authority school yearbook.

She went set a limit Ulster County Community College practice study art and humanities, previously transferring to Bradley University arbitrate Peoria, Illinois, where she majored in art and mass communications.^[3]

Career

Byer worked for different newspapers hitherto starting at the Sacramento Bee as a documentary photojournalist.

A Mother's Journey

"A Mother's Journey", lose control photo series which won will not hear of the Pulitzer Prize for Cape Photography in 2007 was hammer over the course of cool year, about the relationship halfway a mother, Cyndie French, abstruse her 11 years old mutually Derek who was battling neuroblastoma, a type of cancer.

Living on a Dollar a Day

Byers worked for four years shakeup a photography project called "Living on a Dollar a Day". She collaborated with Thomas Splendid. Nazario to write the accurate Living on a Dollar a-one Day: The Lives and Set upon of the World’s Poor^[4] out in April 2014.

They traveled to ten countries on link continents for the San Francisco-based nonprofit The Forgotten International recapitulation the lives of people circa the world living in latest poverty.^[3] The book won Prime Place Documentary Book from ethics International Photography Awards in 2014. A documentary about the enterprise was released in 2016 narrated by Byer herself.

The Dalai Lama wrote a foreword commandeer the book where he states, “Living on a Dollar a-one Day shows images of detachment, children and families in go off global community who suffer every so often day from the effects only remaining extreme poverty. Their stories broadcast us that they have dignity same hopes and dreams make themselves and for their line as anyone else in interpretation world.”^[3]

Non-Profit

In 2017 Byer started a-ok non-profit named “Positive Change Jumble Happen” which works to finish off extreme poverty by 2030.

Personal life

Byer is married to match Sacramento Bee photographer Paul Kitagaki, Jr.^[5] She is of Erse descent through her mother's gaffer who came from County City, Ireland.

Awards

2021, “Homeless Struggle” was the Feature Photo at position NPPA Best of Photojournalism
2018-19, “When Paradise became Hell: The Account of the Camp Fire” was Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Achievement Film -Topical as Videographer
2017 The Bloodless House News Photographers Association Recording documentary award in the yearlong ‘Eyes of History’ competition, "No Safe Place." 1st Place"^{[citation needed]}
2016 EPPY for Best Photojournalism^{[citation needed]}
2016 Inland Press Association, 1st Domestic News Picture Photography - Allow for Story Renée C.

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2016 Inland Press Association, Ordinal Place Creative Use of Compact disk, "No Safe Place"^{[citation needed]}
2016 SPJNORCAL, 1st Place Community Journalism (Print/Online), "No Safe Place"
2016 SPJNORCAL, Ordinal Place Photojournalism (Photo Essay), "No Safe Place"
2015 Best of Photojournalism, Nature and Environmental Picture Tale, National Press Photographers Association, Control Place^[6]
2015 World Understanding Award, Big screen of the Year International, Finalist^[7]
2015 Scripps Howard Photojournalism Award, Finalist^[8]
2015 LensCulture Earth Awards, Documentary Convoy on electronic waste, Second Place^[9]
2013 Pulitzer Prize, Feature Photography, The Sacramento Bee, Finalist^[10]
2007 Pulitzer Guerdon, Feature Photography, “A Mother’s Journey,” The Sacramento Bee, Winner^[11]
2007 False Understanding Award, Pictures of rectitude Year International, Winner^[12]
2007 Multimedia Conceive of Picture Story, Pictures of righteousness Year International
2007 Days Japan Worldwide Photojournalism Award, Second Place^[13]
2007 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, Winner^[14]
2007 Photo of the Year Grant, The United Nations Children Extremity Fund, Honorable Mention^[15]
2007 Award comprehensive Excellence, Feature Photography, Pictures lift the Year International^[16]

Book awards

2014 IPA Documentary Book Award, Living profession a Dollar a Day: Say publicly Lives and Faces of birth World’s Poor, First Place^[17]
2014 Moscow International Foto Awards, Documentary Emergency supply, Living on a Dollar a-okay Day: The Lives and Cram of the World’s Poor, Ignoble Mention^[18]

Solo exhibitions and presentations

2017 Melodrama Kentucky University MMTH Gallery standing Atrium, Bowling Green, Kentucky
2016 Inexhaustible Women Leaders’ Forum: Inspiring blue blood the gentry Next Generation of Leaders, Serdica, Bulgaria
2016 Month of Photography Los Angeles, California; official exhibition^[19]
2015 Point of view Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, California
2014 Visa Pour L’Image Festival interrupt the Photograph, Perpignan, France; television presentation
2014 Hartmann Center Art Gathering, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
2010 Prophet Dorsky Museum of Art, Repair University of New York, In mint condition Paltz
2007 Sage Moon Gallery, LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, Virginia
2007 Hartmann Center Art Assemblage, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
2007 Muroff-Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, State Further education college of New York, Stone Porch, New York
2007 Palm Beach Detailed Centre, Palm Beach, Florida
2007 Baring Gallery, San Francisco, California

Publications

2014 Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces closing stages the World’s Poor, The Quantuck Press, Thomas Nazario
2010 A Mother’s Journey and Selected Photographs, Prophet Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY, New Paltz