Awards & Winners

John Filo

Date of Birth 21-August-1948
Place of Birth Natrona Heights
(Pennsylvania, Allegheny County)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as John Paul Filo
Profession Photojournalist, Photographer, Picture editor
John Paul Filo took the 1970 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a 14-year-old runaway girl, Mary Ann Vecchio, screaming while kneeling over the dead body of 20-year-old Jeffrey Miller, one of the victims of the Kent State shootings. At the time, Filo was both a photojournalism student at Kent State University, and staffer of a satellite paper for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Awards by John Filo

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Filo.

1971


Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
(For his pictorial coverage of the Kent State University tragedy on May 4, 1970.)