Chiaki Kawajiri

Award-winning photojournalist Chiaki Kawajiri brings a strong sense of empathy and humanity to her work. She bonds with her subjects and captures their feelings in her emotionally compelling photographs. Her photos evoke a wonderful sensitivity to the real story of real people, and she couples a warm compassion for her subjects with a fierce determination to show their story with dignity.  She has covered stories worldwide, including the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan; infant mortality in Nepal; and village life in Thailand. While working as a photographer at The Baltimore Sun, the  Los Angeles Times and The Oregonian, she has received several Pulitzer Prize
nominations and numerous awards from the Asian American Journalists Association, National Press Photographers Association, the White House News Photographers Association, Society of Professional Journalists, Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association and others.  Her work has appeared in Life magazine, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Parade magazine and books.

She contributed ‘‘People did care.’’