Steve Starr

Steve Starr is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer. He has since retired from photography, and since 2014, has served as a Third Order Franciscan Brother at Grace and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Colorado Springs.

Education
Starr attended San José State University, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism in 1967.

Career
Starr worked at Associated Press bureaus in Los Angeles, New York City, Albany, New York, and Miami.

In 1970, his photograph the prior year, "Campus Guns," of armed African American protesters leaving Willard Straight Hall at Cornell University after negotiating an end to their occupation of the building, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.

Personal life
Starr married Marilynne Starr, who he met as a San Jose State University student. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 2020, he began work on an autobiography about his career and experiences as a photojournalist and as a Franciscan brother.

Awards

 * May 4, 1970: Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography

Works

 * "Guns on Campus", 1969
 * "Mourners at the Columbine Memorial", 1999