In 1989, University of New Hampshire graduate Mark Osler was a manager with AT&T, living the high life in Boston, when he stumbled onto photojournalism. Mark then found himself, in January 1990, back in college at Western Kentucky University.

Mark has worked for newspapers of all sizes as both a staff photographer and freelancer. Before leaving the newspaper world in 2008, Mark spent six years as a picture editor for the Rocky Mountain News, winning picture-editing awards in four of those years. In 2002, Mark guided the Rocky’s photographic coverage of the wildfires that ravaged Colorado for 5 months. The brilliant coverage earned the Rocky Mountain News photo staff the 2003 Pulitzer prize for breaking news photography.

In 2008 and 2009, Mark collaborated with WKU’s own, Tim Broekema on a variety of stories related the historic presidential campaign and Inauguration. The dynamic duo claimed a Best of Photojournalism (NPPA) award in both years for their efforts.

These days, he and his family make home in Denver, Colorado where Mark regularly loses business to the freakishly-talented photographers he once managed at the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News.