Manny Crisostomo  

Manny Crisostomo has identified for many years as a multi-media photojournalist. In 1989 his 12-month-long series of photos following the lives of students at Southwestern High School in Detroit as they navigated the normal travails of teenage life alongside unemployment, violence, and drugs won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Among his other numerous awards are the McClatchy President's Award for his series "The Weight" and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for International Photography for his piece documenting Hmong refugees. Crisostomo has taught at San Francisco State University, California State University Hayward, and the University of Gaum. In addition to his time as a photographer for The Detroit Free Press and The Sacramento Bee, he also served as the Multimedia Editor for the Sacramento Bee, and publisher of Latte Magazine. He has three published books to date.