UNITED STATES

Frederick Larson has been a photojournalist for the San Francisco Chronicle for 17 years and has received more than 50 awards. In 1988, he was the first photojournalist to win the Hibakusha Travel Grant Program, to photograph the World War II atom bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That work was a finalist in the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. Larson was named Photographer of the Year in 1989 and 1990 by the California Press Photographers' Association, and in 1991 he was named Photographer of the Year by the Bay Area Press Photographers' Association. He was awarded the 1994 National Press Photographers/Nikon Sabbatical grant for a photo story idea titled Heroes: the Changing Faces of American Manhood. Larson currently teaches documentary photography at the Academy of Art College of San Francisco and since 1992 has been an instructor during the summer semester at the University of Hawaii.