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Deanne Fitzmaurice (born July 6, 1957), an independent photographer, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for Feature Photography while working for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Biography
Fitzmaurice was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, Fitzmaurice and her husband Kurt Rogers co-founded the camera bag company, Think Tank Photo, in 2005.

Education
Fitzmaurice graduated in photography at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, California earning a B.F.A. in photography.

Career
Fitzmaurice worked at the San Francisco Chronicle for 16 years. Before joining the San Francisco Chronicle, she had contributed to a number of journals including Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine and People. Fitzmaurice has been a contact photographer for the best-selling Day in the Life books.

Awards and Exhibitions
In 2005, Fitzmaurice received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for “her sensitive photo essay on an Oakland hospital's effort to mend an Iraqi boy nearly killed by an explosion.” Fitzmaurice followed the progress of Saleh Khalaf over 13 months in an Oakland hospital beginning in November 2003.

Fitzmaurice’s same work, “Operation Lion Heart,” also received the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism in 2005. In addition to that, Fitzmaurice received the Mark Twain Award. The celebrities she photographed included Barack Obama, Steven Spielberg and Jerry Seinfeld. She worked for the Chronicle until 2008. Fitzmaurice was named on of Microsoft’s Icons of Imaging in 2007.