- Justin Merriman
Justin Merriman (born September 28, 1977) is a award winning photojournalist.
A staff photographer at the
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania , Merriman has worked as a photojournalist with the Tribune-Review Publishing Company since 1999. He is aGreensburg, Pennsylvania native and a graduate of theUniversity of Pittsburgh at Greensburg with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Writing.He has spent the last 10 years documenting the world around him.Merriman has photographed and covered many national and international stories, including the events of September 11th and the crash of United Flight 93, the Sago mine disaster in Sago, West Virginia, polio in India, life in Cuba, the 2008 Parliamentary Elections in Pakistan, the war in Afghanistan and stories across the country.
His photography has been recognized and honored with awards from the
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association , the News Photographers Association of Greater Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania Press Club, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, the Northern Short Course, the Southern Short Course, the National Press Photographers Association, the Society for News Design, and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, he was named Photographer of the Year by the News Photographers Association of Greater Pittsburgh.His work has been appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, American Profile magazine, The Knot, Time magazine’s “Pictures of the Week”, USA Today’s “Day in Sports,” The Washington Post’s “Photos of the Day,” MSNBC’s “Week in Pictures,” Sports Illustrated’s SI.com, CBS’s CBSSportsline.com, Muse Magazine, Americanphotojournalist.com, Golfweek Magazine, and newspapers across the country.
In 2002, Merriman was selected as one of 100 photographers and invited to attend the prestigious Eddie Adams Workshop in New York City. Today, he continues his work in photojournalism striving to make images that reveal humanity and document the world around him.
He currently resides in Greensburg, PA with his wife, Melissa and son, Madden.
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
