WASHINGTON, DC (July 27, 2010) – Photojournalist Andrea Bruce has decided to leave The Washington Post to go freelance, and her photography will be represented by the VII Photo Agency Network, photography and multimedia director Michel duCille told the Post's staff today.
"After a great eight years as a staff photographer, Andrea has decided to go freelance," duCille told Post staffers in an eMail today. "Andrea's passion has been to document stories at the far ends of the world. During the last year she has paid keen attention to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ... Andrea will continue to freelance for The Washington Post, mostly in Afghanistan. We wish her well on this new chapter in her life."
As a Post staff photojournalist for eight years Bruce covered the war in Iraq beginning in 2003. For a while she also wrote a weekly column for the paper called "Unseen Iraq." A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Bruce landed her first staff job at the Concord Monitor after college internships. She then worked briefly for the St. Petersburg Times before joining The Washington Post.
Bruce has been named the White House News Photographer's Association's Photographer of the Year four times now, and was also the recipient of the John Faber Award from the Overseas Press Club.
VII Photo is a collectively-owned agency that was founded in 2001 to specialize in conflict photography. Today VII, which was named after the seven original founding photographers, represents more than 30 visual artists.
