Stan Grossfeld

Stan Grossfeld was born in New York City and went on to Rochester Institute of Technology to earn his BA in Professional Photography in 1973. He began his career as a journalist at The Star Ledger in Newark, N.J., where he worked for two years. Grossfeld then moved on to work for The Boston Globe in 1975 and has since been named New England Photographer of the Year five times.

Grossfeld has won two Pulitzer Prizes. His first win was for Spot News Photography in 1984 for his coverage of the effects of war on the people of Lebanon. In 1985, Grossfeld won his second Pulitzer in Feature Photography for his series of photographs of the famine in Ethiopia and for his pictures of illegal aliens at the Mexican border. In 1994, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Photography for a year-long series depicting the social, medical and environmental crises caused by the depletion of natural resources.

Biography text taken from Grossfeld's Boston Globe bio page.