Ronald A. Edmonds
Senior White House Photographer (retired) for the Associated Press
My photography professor Dick Fleming started me down this path and for more than 30 years, I have photographed sunrises and sunsets around the world and been an eyewitness to what most have only seen on front pages and in magazines through my lens. As a news photographer, I have photographed every United States President from Richard Nixon through Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43 to President Barack Obama’s historic victory. My journey has allowed me to photograph summits of world leaders, Presidential inaugurations, shuttle launches, Super Bowls, Summer & Winter Olympics, Cal Ripken’s record-breaking game, NBA playoffs, political races, key marches on Washington and almost all the Republican and Democratic National Conventions since 1980.
I have traveled to over forty countries around the world and have covered international events including the turmoil in the Middle East and the sadness of war. My images of the 1981 attack on President Ronald Reagan earned me the Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography.My work has appeared in Life, Time, Newsweek, Paris Match, NY Times, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, People, National Geographic, US News, Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal.
I hope you enjoy a tour through some of my images taken during my more than 35-years of photojournalism.
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1972-77 Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Chief Photographer
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1977-81 United Press International
Newpicture Bureau Manager
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1981-2009 Associated Press
Senior White House Photographer
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AWARDS
PULITZER PRIZE FOR SPOT NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY 1982
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in spot news photography for coverage of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan’s life on March 30, 1981.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Feb. 8, 2013) – The White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA) awarded retired Associated Press photographer Ron Edmonds with the Lifetime Achievement Award
“Ron Edmonds is the quintessential Washington photojournalist. He’s been a fixture in the White House pressroom from the Reagan presidency through President Barack Obama’s first term, said J. David Ake, Assistant Chief of Bureau for Photography in The Associated Press, Washington Bureau. “Many of his images have stood the test of time and are now icons in our collective memory. He was arguably during his Washington tenure, the AP’s most published photographer.
ASSOCIATED PRESS MANAGING EDITORS AWARD,
GRAND DIPLOMA FROM THE WORLD PRESS AWARDS,
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD, SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST,
NATIONAL HEADLINERS AWARD FOR SPOT NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY,
VARIOUS AWARDS FROM
WHITE HOUSE NEWS PHOTOGRAPHERS, ASSOCIATION
AND THE NATIONAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION.
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