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| The photographs honored with a Pulitzer Prize for spot news
photography were the result of one young woman's desire to show the tragedy of ethnic
conflict in Central Africa to readers in Pittsburgh. A native of Murrysville, photographer
Martha Rial traveled 9,000 miles to Rwanda and Burundi, where she was reunited with her
sister Amy, a public-health nurse with the International Rescue Committee in Kibondo,
Tanzania. During her three weeks in central Africa, Martha became our eyes on a land in
the midst of historic and cataclysmic change -- people suffering, succumbing and, yes,
surviving, in their own private ways.
We offer the original report online, in tribute to her fine work, and as a reminder
that at a time of plenty for many Americans, many others in the world suffer depredations
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Martha Rial, age 36, has been a staff photographer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since
1994. Before joining the Post-Gazette, Rial was a staff photographer at the Ft. Pierce
Tribune in Ft. Pierce, Fla. and the Journal Newspapers in Alexandria, Va.
Rial is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and later attended Ohio
University's School of Visual Communication. Her work has been recognized by the
Pittsburgh Chapter of Women in Communication, the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania and
Pittsburgh's Black Media Federation.
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reserved. You cannot re-transmit, print or photocopy the materials on this site for
re-distribution in any medium without the written permission of the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette.
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