Carolyn Cole is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, where she has spent sixteen years covering national and international news. Her coverage of the civil crisis in Liberia won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Carolyn is a two-time winner of the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club of America -- for her work in Iraq and Liberia (2003) and her photographs of the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem (2002). She has earned four World Press awards and has also been named U.S. newspaper photographer of the year three times. She most recently Cole covered the Egyptian uprising and the tsunami in Japan. She is currently based in New York.