Du Cille, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for exposing the mistreatment of wounded veterans at the U.S. Army’s Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, will be discussing his award winning work and the incorporation of multimedia into his Pulitzer Prize winning project.
Michel du Cille was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Du Cille is a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize as well as a winner of several national Photographer of the Year Awards. He shared his first Pulitzer in spot news photography with fellow Miami Herald staff photographer Carol Guzy, for their coverage of the November 1985 eruption of Colombia’s Nevado Del Ruiz volcano. A second Pulitzer in feature photography was awarded for his photo essay on crack cocaine addicts in a Miami housing project. Du Cille was appointed Assistant Managing Editor for Photography in November of 2007; he joined The Washington Post in 1988 as picture editor. In 2005 he was an associate editor working primarily as a project photojournalist until his appointment as AME/Photo.
He joined The Miami Herald’s photography staff in 1981 after internships at The Louisville Courier Journal/Times in 1979 and The Miami Herald in 1980. Since he has been with The Washington Post since 1988 where served as Picture Editor. Du Cille began his career in photojournalism while in high school working at The Gainesville (GA) Times. He is a graduate of Indiana University School of Journalism and holds a Master of Science degree in journalism from Ohio University.
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