William Snyder
William Snyder
William Snyder is a four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and editor, has been The Who's official photographer for many years, and is a professor of photojournalism at his alma mater, Rochester Institute of Technology.
After graduating from RIT with Highest Honors in 1981, Snyder joined The Miami News and two years later moved to the photography staff of The Dallas Morning News. During his 15 years as a staff photographer, Snyder won three Pulitzers Prizes.
In 1998, Snyder changed roles and became a picture editor/manager. He served as the night photo editor, assignments editor, metro/suburban photo editor, and, as assistant director of photography, built and managed an eight-person photo staff in The Dallas Morning News' aggressive Collin County bureau.
In early 2005 he was named The Morning News' director of photography and guided the photography staff to the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. He also produced "Eyes of The Storm," a 256-page book featuring The Dallas Morning News photo staff's images from hurricanes Katrina and Rita that sold over 14,000 copies. Profits from those sales were donated to various hurricane relief agencies and the Pulitzer Center for Journalists. In September of 2006, Snyder took a buyout from The Morning News after 23 years.
Snyder moved to RIT in 2008. Since arriving, Snyder has been chosen as an RIT Outstanding Alumni, selected for the The Isaiah Thomas Award in Publishing, and won the Frank J. Romano Endowed Prize for Publishing Entrepreneurship. He also serves on the Alumni Association Board of Directors and is an advisor to The Reporter magazine.
Biography text taken from Snyder's portfolio website.
1991 Winner
Feature Photography
"For his photographs of ill and orphaned children living in subhuman conditions in Romania." - Pulitzer Board
Two young girls at the "Home for Irrecoverables." It was estimated that 25 percent of all orphans under the age of 2 were HIV-positive at that time.
A small group of children sit patiently next to their bed in the "Home for Irrecoverables" in Gradinari, Romania in May of 1990.
A very sick child waits for an attendant to feed him at the "Home for Irrecoverables" in Gradinari, Romania.
Nurse Mimi Risezcu feeds one of the older children who cannot control her arms or hands during dinner time at the "Home for Irrecoverables" in Vulturesti, Romania. No one could say what the child's problems were.
Nurse Mimi Risezcu takes the dishes and cups to the kitchen following dinnertime at the "Home for Irrecoverables" in Vulturesti, Romania.
Insect bites dot the legs of one of the young girls at the "Home for Irrecoverables" in Vulturesti, Romania. No one could say what the girl's problems were.
A child is tied to the bed in the "Home for Irrecoverables" in Vulturesti, Romania so that he/she couldn't leave the bed.
Mimi Rizescu does her best to feed, clothe and comfort nearly 20 children of various ages in the "Home for Irrecoverables" in Vulturesti, Romania.
An infant suffering from full-blown AIDS quietly cries in bed at the Victor Babes Hospital in Bucharest, Romania in May of 1990.
An HIV-positive infant is picked for feeding at the Victor Babes Hospital in Bucharest, Romania in May of 1990.
An AIDS-infected infant tries to sleep in the pediatric AIDS ward of the Victor Babes Hospital in Bucharest, Romania, in May of 1990.
