{"id":2001070,"date":"2025-09-06T03:48:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T03:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2001070"},"modified":"2025-09-06T03:48:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T03:48:56","slug":"enquirer-photographer-retires-after-42-years-capturing-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/enquirer-photographer-retires-after-42-years-capturing-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Enquirer photographer retires after 42 years capturing images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>I\u2019m retiring after 42 years. The words stick in my throat.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/>\n<p>I started my <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/2025\/06\/22\/enquirer-photographer-follows-jewish-cemetery-vandalism-one-year-later\/84165877007\/\">photojournalism career<\/a> at the Pacific Daily News in Guam after graduating from Arizona State University and spending a year on Oahu. After two years in Guam, I moved to the Pensacola News Journal in Florida. I guess I was tired of year-round sunshine because I moved to Cincinnati in 1989. But I&#8217;ve never regretted the move and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/weather\/2025\/08\/13\/farmers-almanac-predicts-winter-wonderland-ohio-forecast\/85630695007\/\">I&#8217;ve learned to drive in snow!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spent more than half of the past 36 years at The Enquirer as a photo editor, but the best decision I ever made was to go <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/2025\/02\/23\/what-we-do-how-we-reported-addyston-story\/78391340007\/\">back to the street, shooting full time.<\/a> No more endless meetings, just doing what I\u2019ve loved since I was a little girl fascinated by my dad\u2019s cameras.<\/p>\n<p>My career has taken me around the world, from The Falkland Islands, to Singapore, New Delhi, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. I\u2019m especially proud that I was able to show the human toll, too, of the opioid epidemic. Being part of the team to win a Pulitzer Prize for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/pages\/interactives\/seven-days-of-heroin-epidemic-cincinnati\/\">Seven Days of Heroin<\/a> in 2018 is something I never imagined.<\/p>\n<p><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"85773977007\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Beyond <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/2020\/10\/24\/untouchable-attorney-charged-sex-trafficking\/6023108002\/\">crime<\/a>, social issues and weather, my happy place has always been the zoo. And <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/in-depth\/entertainment\/2021\/04\/29\/zoo-babies-cincinnati-zoo-portraits\/7355457002\/\">Cincinnati has a great one. <\/a>Thank you for letting me <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/money\/2018\/05\/23\/photos-82-hours-iceland\/607243002\/\">turn my hobby into a career.<\/a> I\u2019m forever grateful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>Take a look at\u00a0some of my favorite photos shot at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/in-depth\/news\/2019\/12\/03\/cincinnati-zoo-animals-glamour-photos\/4190572002\/\">Cincinnati Zoo<\/a> over the years\u00a0with the gallery above. See below for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/local\/2023\/12\/25\/photos-of-the-year-liz-dufour\/71729333007\/\">more photos of my work<\/a> during my time spent with The Enquirer.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">A thousand flags honor those gone at The Arlington Memorial Gardens<\/h2>\n<p><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"83774702007\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">Praying the Steps in Mt. Adams on Good Friday<\/h2>\n<p><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"83154700007\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">Lincoln Heights residents protest Evendale police response to neo-Nazi demonstration<\/h2>\n<p><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"78987459007\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">It&#8217;s Opening Day for the Cincinnati Reds. See our favorite photos<\/h2>\n<p><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"82687036007\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">City forces homeless to vacate encampment in Mount Washington, but they&#8217;re still there<\/h2>\n<p><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"76127147007\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s in Over-the-Rhine? See photos around historic Cincinnati neighborhood<\/h2>\n<p><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"85638384007\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">Do you remember? A peek inside the now closed Tri-County Mall, soon to be no more<\/h2>\n<p><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"75406782007\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"\/><lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2025-09-05 04:15:54 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2025-09-05 04:15:54 +0000 UTC\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cincinnati.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m retiring after 42 years. The words stick in my throat. I started my photojournalism career at the Pacific Daily News in Guam after graduating from Arizona State University and spending a year on Oahu. After two years in Guam, I moved to the Pensacola News Journal in Florida. I guess I was tired of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2001071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[39915,22385,363734,25138,305875,22220,28025,6297,21741,363731,316800,363735,21739,298114,22764,239456,239462,21738,239343,239347,363733,363736,22266,305871,23759,24495,23152,363732,239344,24098],"class_list":["post-2001070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-affiliate","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-state-university","tag-article","tag-article-plus","tag-arts","tag-digital","tag-eamotion","tag-entertainment","tag-guam","tag-image","tag-image-topper","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-local-news","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-photographic","tag-photographic-u0026-digital-arts","tag-photography","tag-plus","tag-positive","tag-state","tag-story","tag-topper","tag-u0026","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Enquirer-photographer-retires-after-42-years-capturing-images.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}