Award-Winning Images Touch 'Your Head And Your Heart'
Editor's Note: One photo in this story, of a child who died, may be distressing to some viewers.
Andrea Bruce was at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, finishing up her last semester as a journalism major, when she took a photography class for fun.
It set the trajectory of her future.
"I was not going to do anything else with my life [after that]. I dedicated everything to that," says the documentary photographer.
That decision in 1995 brought her, eventually, to this moment: This month she won the Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award. The prize, honoring women who shed light on crucial topics and in harsh environments, is given by the International Women's Media Foundation. It commemorates Anja Niedringhaus, a Pulitzer-prize winning Associated Press photographer killed by police in Afghanistan.
Bruce, who considered
