A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer for the Los Angeles Times, Robert Gauthier has focused his camera on both the tragedies and triumphs of human lives. Among other assignments, he has told stories with his pictures from the Iraq War, the 2004 Greece Olympics, the Liberation of Kosovo and the Cannes Film Festival.
Gauthier won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2005 for a five part series on the long-afflicted Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, which was founded with great expectations after the Watts riots. For reporters and one photographer, Gauthier, systematically examined the blunders, coverups and managerial problems that have plagued the hospital. Gauthier also won the 2005 Robert F. Kennedy Award for Domestic Service for the same story.
Before coming to the Los Angeles Times in 1994, Gauthier was a staff photographer at the San Diego Union Tribune. there, he covered the invasion of Somalia and photographed other such notable stories as in-depth look into the lives of three families dealing with mental illness.
His dedication to community journalism was evident even in his early work. at the Escondido Times Advocate, he documented an in-depth look into a young boy's losing battle with leukemia. Gauthier was also a reporter and photographer for the Bernardo News in San Diego where he covered the 1994 National League Playoffs and World Series.
Gauthier is on the Board of Directors for the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles and received the 2005 Sigma Delta Chi award for Sports Photography.
Robert Gauthier got his feet wet as a photographer, reporter and editor for The Collegian at Fresno State from 1979 to 1983. He is married to Renee Kline, who graduated from Fresno State in 1981. They have two children, Alison and Alex.
by Robert Gauthier
B.A. Photojournalism 1983
2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner
Photojournalist for the LA Times
Thursday, January 17, 2008
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