Robert Bukaty and Dan Loh
Robert Bukaty
Robert F. Bukaty was born in Buffalo, N.Y. and studied photographic illustration at Rochester Institute of Technology. Bukaty has a reputation for making compelling images of ordinary, everyday life. He has worked for the Associated Press since 1993. His major assignments included the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City, Hurricane Katrina, the Boston Marathon bombing and several presidential campaigns. In 2008 he had a special six-month assignment in Beijing, China, culminating with the summer Olympics, one of six Olympic Games that he has covered.
Biography text taken from Bukaty's AP Images bio.
Dan Loh
Dan Loh is a former Associated Press staff photographer and recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for a photo of White House intern Monica Lewinsky and her attorney William Ginsberg. His prize-winning photo is published in Moments: The Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographs and Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs.
Loh also contributed to the AP's September 11 photographic coverage of the attacks at the World Trade Center with his smoldering Lower Manhattan skyline photograph.
Loh is a 1995 graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology and received his MFA from New Jersey City University in 2017.
1999 Winner
Feature Photography
"For a striking collection of photographs of the key players and events stemming from President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky and the ensuing impeachment hearings." - Pulitzer Board
AP staff photographers Bukaty and Loh each had a photo in the staff entry that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
A technician in a cherry picker works on a giant video screen in New York's Times Square on Monday, Sept. 21, 1998, as NBC's Tim Russert comments on President Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony from Aug. 17, 1998. That morning, Congress laid before a wary nation the president's testimony and 3,183 pages of evidence chronicling his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in explicit detail.
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and her attorney William Ginsburg head to their car from the Wanamaker Building in Philadelphia Monday, April 6, 1998.
"I was part of the Associated Press photo team that covered President Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. This was a rapidly evolving news story that captured the nation’s attention demanding extensive photos of all the key players involved," Loh wrote on his website. "Over the year, photographs would be made of Monica from several blocks away entering federal courthouse, or through the car window of her speeding limo, and in chaotic media scrums. Access was an issue as she and her team of attorneys were very elusive, making it a challenge for the news media to get decent photographs. If a photograph of Monica was made, a news photographer most likely spent hours or days to get that photo, as cell phone cameras didn’t exist back then. On April 6, 1998, Monica was in Philadelphia at The Wanamaker Building with her attorney William Ginsburg. As she suddenly emerged from the front door of the building dashing to an awaiting car, I had a split-second opportunity to capture Monica Lewinsky on film from up close in an unguarded moment."
Behind the Scenes
Seven of RIT's Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalists received the university's Isaiah Thomas Award in Publishing Sept. 22, 2011, at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Pictured, from left: Ken Geiger, Loh, Bukaty, Anthony Suau, William Snyder, Paul Benoit and Stan Grossfeld.
Loh, right, was part of celebrations for the Pulitzer Prize-winning entry in Philadelphia and at the Newseum in Washington D.C.
Loh, left, during a Pulitzer Prize celebration at the Newseum in Washington D.C.
Loh, back left in the winter hat, photographs Bill Clinton's personal secretary Betty Currie.
Loh's coverage of the White House scandal caught the attention of Korean news media.