Marianne Thomas, 57

 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (September 29, 2008) – Photojournalist and picture editor Marianne Thomas has died after several battles with cancer. She was 57, and was a former photography editor for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Thomas served as a faculty member on NPPA's Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop in 1991, 1992, and 1993. From 1992 through 2002 she was a photography editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, and had been a picture editor for the San Antonio Light in Texas and a photographer for newspapers in Cocoa and Melbourne, FL.

She had also worked as a reporter in Florida at the DeLand Sun News and the Daytona Beach News-Journal. From 1974 through 1976, Thomas was a volunteer in the Peace Corps.

Thomas was also the author of a photographic book, "Our World: The Children of Oalkand." Her photography can be seen online at www.mariannethomas.com.

A summa cum laude graduate of Syracuse University with a Latin American studies degree and a journalism minor, Thomas also particiated in the Ohio University Picture Editing Workshop, the Missouri Workshop, and the Maine Photographic Workshops.

Thomas joined NPPA in 1999.

 

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