Ruth Fremson


Ruth Fremson is an American photojournalist and staff photographer for New York Times">New York (state)">New York Times.

Personal life

Fremson was born on Long Island, in New York. She is now married to pilot and aerial photographer John Scurlock. Together they live on Bainbridge Island, Washington, in the metropolitan area of Seattle.

Career

She previously lived in New York City, where she was a photographer of the 9/11 attacks. She has also travelled to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq to document conflicts in the region.
Fremson is a graduate of the Newhouse School of Public Communications|Newhouse School] of Syracuse University, where she completed a Bachelor's degree. She went on to join a Master's program at Ohio University.
After graduating from Syracuse, she worked an internship for The Washington Times in the summer of 1988. From 1989, she worked as staff for the Times until she joined the Associated Press in 1994. While working for AP, she covered multiple international events, including the reinstatement of Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the end of the Bosnian Civil War, and the List of pastoral visits of [Pope John Paul II|visit] of Pope [John Paul II] to Cuba in 1998. She was hired by The New York Times in 2000.
In 2016, she appeared on the B&H Photo podcast.

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