A Mother's Journey and Selected Photographs

By Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art Staff, Dorsky Muse Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs document a single mother's emotional and financial struggles as her son battles a rare form of childhood cancer.

This collection of photographs presents photojournalist Ren e C. Byer's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, "A Mother's Journey," along with other early and recent photographs. "A Mother's Journey" is an intimate portrayal of a single mother's emotional and financial struggles as her son battles neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer. This year-long documentary project was originally published in the Sacramento Bee as a four-part series and on the Web as a multimedia package. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2007, the series won a World Understanding Award as well the Society of Professional Journalist's Sigma Delta Chi Award for feature photography. "When done well," said Byer, "photojournalism is a powerful tool because it connects people to the reality of life and can bring understanding and awareness to important issues."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615358454
• ISBN13: 9780615358451
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Distribution Partners
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher