Photographer April Saul

April Saul joined The Inquirer's photography staff in 1981, after a year at the Baltimore Sun. She specializes in documentary photojournalism, and was the first recipient of the Nikon/NPPA Documentary Sabbatical Grant for her work on Hmong refugees in 1985.

Over the last 25 years, she has won numerous honors, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the World Press Photo Budapest Award for Humanistic Photography. She has been named Photographer of the Year by the Northern Short Course, the Pennsylvania Press Photographers Association and the New Jersey Press Photographers Association.

Saul was a Pulitzer Finalist in 1987 and 1994 for Feature Photography, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1997 as part of a team on a series about dying with dignity.

She was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. An English major, she graduated from Tufts University and went on to receive an M.A. in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota.