Gary Porter

Background

About Gary Porter

Pulitzer Prize Winner 2011 Gary Porter began his career as a photojournalist with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 1984, after working at the Janesville Gazette for 8 years. Porter has worked on many projects over the years and travelled extensively for the Journal Sentinel, including stories in Bangladesh, Nepal, India, China, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Spain, Mexico, Canada, and Belgium. He is a recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism as a member of a team for One in a Billion, the story of DNA sequencing of a very sick little boy. Porter has also been awarded a 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Award for Print Journalism, for the photos and video for the story Imminent Danger, a look at mental commitment laws, two AP National Headliner awards, the Overseas Press Club Award for Outstanding Photojournalism from Abroad, the United Nations World Hunger Year Award, as well as being named Wisconsin News Photographer of Year 6 times. Porter attended the University of Wisconsin system and studied photography at Ryerson University in Toronto. He lives with his wife in Wauwatosa and has three children.