Pierre Burnaugh
USA

Nominee

"Maximum Joy"

Biography: Pierre Burnaugh (b. 1964) Chicago, has always been fascinated and passionate about photography from a young age. Early years saw him being self-taught by reading every magazine and book about photography he could get his hands on including a set of The Time-Life Library of Photography, gifted to him by a cousin. In high school, Pierre was the only photography student accepted into the Chicago Board of Education's Access to Excellence Program at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School. During undergraduate studies, while earning a bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in Art History from...