MEET THE FACULTY: Scott Strazzante
Scott Strazzante is a staff photographer for the Chicago Tribune.
Strazzante, a 10-time Illinois Photographer of the Year, has covered the Super Bowl, the World Series and three Olympic Games, but he is more proud of his work that uncovers small but universal moments in daily life.
Strazzante was recently named Northern Illinois Universityâs Journalist of the Year, only the 2nd time in 37 years that the award has been bestowed on a photojournalist.
Strazzante was a small part of the Chicago Tribune team that won a Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting in 2007 for a series about faulty government regulation of dangerously defective toys, cribs and car seats.
In 2008, MediaStorm published Common Ground, a multimedia piece on Strazzanteâs personal project on the transformation of a piece of land in suburban Chicago from rural to suburban. The 15-year-long project, which still continues, has also been published in the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Mother Jones and National Geographic. The project has also been honored with POYi's Community Awareness Award and 1st place in Feature Video in the NPPA's Best of Photojournalism contest.
Scott writes the Shooting From The Hip blog for the Chicago Tribune. Check it out, or follow him on Instagram.














