Larry C. Price (born February 23, 1954)^[1] is an American photojournalist who has won two Pulitzer Prizes. In 1981, he won the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography, recognizing images from Liberia published by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.^[2] In 1985, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for images from war-torn Angola and El Salvador published by The Philadelphia Inquirer.^[3]

Early life

Born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, Price attended Sam Houston State University and then transferred to the University of Texas at Austin from which he received a Bachelor of Journalism degree in 1977. He was a member of The Daily Texan staff during his senior year in college.^[1]

Career

After college, he joined the El Paso Times staff. He then worked on the news staff at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. During that time (1979-1983), Price also was a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin.^[1]

In 1983, he left Fort Worth for The Philadelphia Inquirer to work as a photojournalist and later director of photography. After leaving the Inquirer in 1989, Price worked on contract for National Geographic before returning to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as an assistant managing editor in 1991. In 1996, Price joined The Baltimore Sun photography staff. He was named assistant managing editor for photography for The Denver Post^[4] in 2000 where he remained until mid-2006. Price worked on a photographic collection showing the life of black cowboys in 2004 and 2005.^[4] In 2013, grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting funded Price's project to document child labor in developing countries.^[5] Price produced an episode of PBS NewsHour, "Hazardous Work: Diving into the Philippines’ Dangerous Underwater Mines", which received an Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism in a regularly scheduled newscast in 2015.^[6][7] In 2019, Price was one of the winners of the 70th Annual George Polk Awards from Long Island University, being honored for Environmental Reporting for a series of reports on deadly particulate pollutants in seven countries.^[8]

Price has received a Best Photographic Reporting award from the Overseas Press Club and has been honored at the World Press Photo Awards. His images have appeared in Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, U.S. News & World Report, Audubon and other national publications. Price has contributed to 12 Day in the Life photography books including the acclaimed A Day in the Life of America, A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union, and A Day in the Life of Africa.