A Guyanese is among this year’s winners of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for photographic work she did in Haiti following the catastrophic earthquake there last year.
According to the Pulitzer Prizes website, Guyanese Kahn joined the Washington Post in January 2005 after her previous job as a photographer and editor at Knight-Ridder Tribune Photo Service in Washington, D.C. She has also worked as a staff photographer at the Indianapolis Star and as an intern at the Washington Times, the News Journal in Wilmington, Del., and the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska.
The website said Kahn was born in Georgetown, Guyana but moved to Washington, D.C where she studied at the American University and completed her Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in visual media and art history in May 1996. She later attended Syracuse University and completed a Masters of Science degree in photography in May 2004, with a project on AIDS in Guyana. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband Michel duCille.
Khan shared the prize with two other persons, both employed with the Washington Post, Carol Guzy and Ricky Carioti.
