The Haggin Museum is proud to host several special events in conjunction with the exhibition. These programs offer the public the chance to meet several of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers whose images are featured in the exhibition and to hear firsthand accounts of some of the compelling stories they have covered in their long and distinguished careers in photojournalism.

PULITZER EXHIBITION OPENING AND RECEPTION
Saturday, April 2, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Advance reservations required: $15 per person

An opening reception at the museum on Saturday, April 2, 6-9 p.m. will offer a preview of the Pulitzer exhibition. Confirmed special guests include Pulitzer Prize photographers Kim Komenich and Sal Veder, as well as exhibition curator and catalogue editor Cyma Rubin. They will be signing copies of the catalogue that will be on sale that evening. Advance reservations at $15 per person are required. Please call (209) 940-6311 or e-mail info@hagginmuseum.org for more information.

CAPTURING THE MOMENT: Pulitzer Prize Photographers Roundtable
Sunday, April 17, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Free with museum admission:
  $5 adults; $2.50 seniors and youth, 10-17; children under 10 free with adult

Retired Associated Press photographer Slava "Sal" Veder's Pulitzer moment came in 1973 at Travis Air Force Base, when he captured the joyous reunion between an American prisoner of war returning from Vietnam and his family.

Manteca native Kim Komenich, currently a photographer and editor with the San Francisco Chronicle, won his Pulitzer in Spot news in 1987 for a series of riveting photographs taken in the last days of the Ferdinand Marcos regime in the Philippines.

Sacramento Bee photographer Manny Crisostomo was working at the Detroit Free Press when he spent the 1987-1988 school year at Detroit's Southwestern High. His photos captured "the special character of high school life" in a community where resources were tight, unemployment was high and crime was an ever-present threat. He won the 1989 Pulitzer for Feature Photography.

Annie Wells, now working as a photographer and editor at the Los Angeles Times, received a Pulitzer in Spot News in 1997 for photographs of the daring and dramatic rescue of a teenage girl from a flooding creek in Northern California.

Seating will be available in the Haggin Room starting at 1:30 p.m. on a first-come, first-served basis. The only cost is admission to the museum. Arrive early for the best seats.

Photo by Craig Sanders

The Pulitzer Prize calls attention to photojournalists who, for the most part, go unrecognized at hundreds of newspapers across the country. Closer to home, readers of The Record rarely think about the photographers who travel throughout the region taking photographs of breaking events.

A roundtable of Record photographers on Saturday, May 7, 2:30-4 p.m., will offer an opportunity to hear from these talented individuals. Mike McCollum, Clifford Oto, and Craig Sanders will talk about their careers and their experiences here in the Stockton area. Between them, they have worked for decades as photojournalists.

Learn more about the field of photojournalism and hear firsthand about some of the dramatic moments these professionals have experienced in their years at The Record.

Seating will be available in the Haggin Room starting at 1:30 p.m. on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early for the best seats.

THE STORIES BEHIND THE PHOTOS:
San Francisco Chronicle Pulitzer Prize Photographers at the Haggin
featuring 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner Deanne Fitzmaurice
Sunday, May 15, 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Free with museum admission:
  $5 adults; $2.50 seniors and youth, 10-17; children under 10 free with adult

Fitzmaurice won the coveted Pulitzer Prize April 4 in the category of Feature Photography for a photo essay that recorded the journey of a 9-year-old Iraqi boy from the streets of Iraq to a hospital bed in Oakland.  Saleh Khalaf was severely maimed in an explosion in Iraq after picking up a bomb he had mistaken for a toy.  American troops responded to pleas from his father and, in a dramatic rescue, flew the severely-wounded child with his father to California for medical treatment.  Fitzmaurice, along with reporter Meredith May, followed the progress of this small boy as he underwent countless surgeries, endured excruciating physical and emotional pain, and finally was reunited with his mother and siblings.  What started as a human interest story became a 15-month project that resulted in a series of award-winning articles on “Operation Lion Heart.”

According to Staff Writer Kevin Fagan, Fitzmaurice’s Chronicle colleagues have “long appreciated her sensitive ability to connect with those she photographs by truly caring about them … she has always treated people as fellow human beings with feelings instead of mere subjects – all the while capturing images with an uncommonly precise and artful eye.” 

These qualities shine through in this portfolio that records what the reporter described as “a journey of inspiring courage, medical triumphs, unforeseen tragedies and small miracles.”

Manteca native Kim Komenich won his Pulitzer for Spot News in 1987 for a series of photographs taken in the tumultuous last days of the Ferdinand Marcos regime in the Philippines.  Phil Bronstein, now editor of The Chronicle, was the reporter who worked with him on that story when both men were at the San Francisco Examiner.  In addition to his prize-winning work as a photographer for The Chronicle, Komenich has also taught news photography at several journalism schools and is co-founder of the San Francisco Exposure Gallery, an issues-oriented documentary photograph gallery.

Another highlight of this May 15 special event at the Haggin will be the unveiling of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs by Deanne Fitzmaurice for Feature Photography and by The Associated Press for Breaking News.  The Associated Press received their 2005 Pulitzer for a portfolio of photographs on the Iraq War. These will remain on display through June 19 as part of the exhibition, bringing the total number of photographs on display to more than 130, the largest ever assembled in the United States.      

Seating on May 15 will be on a first-come, first-served basis, with reserved seating available starting at 1:30 p.m.  The only cost is admission to the museum:  $5 adults; $2.50 seniors and youth, 10-17; children under 10 free with adult.  For special access, please call ahead at (209) 940-6311 or 940-6317.

For more information, call (209) 940-6315.