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Martha
Rial , 39, has been a staff photographer for the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette since 1994. Rial is graduate of Ohio
University's School of Visual Communication and worked
previously for the Journal Newspapers in northern
Virginia and for the Fort Pierce Tribune in Florida.
Rial has won a National Headliners Award, the Scripps
Howard Foundation Award for Photojournalism and has
been named Pennsylvania Newspaper Photographer of
the Year. Her work has also been honored by the Society
of Newspaper Design and Associated Press Managing
Editors. Rial's photographs documenting the lives
of Burundian and Rwandan refugees won the 1998 Pulitzer
Prize for Spot News Photography.
Rial is native of the Pittsburgh suburb of Murrysville,
and currently resides in the city neighborhood of
Squirrel Hill.
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