Renée C. Byer is a Senior Photojournalist at the Sacramento Bee and has been profiled in newspapers and magazines throughout the world. Byer has the rare inner lens needed to produce photos with profound emotional resonance and sensitivity.
She is currently working on a book project for the nonprofit organization The Forgotten International, with the working title Living on a Dollar a Day . Her hope is to tell the story of the more than one billion individuals around the world who work long hours -- sometimes under dangerous conditions -- to ultimately earn only about a dollar a day. Byer's goal is to raise awareness of the women, children, and families at the bottom of the economic ladder, who work so hard just to stay alive.
In 2007, she won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for her series "A Mother's Journey" where she spent a year documenting the vigil of Cyndie over her youngest son, Derek who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma.
IRIS Nights is a free photographer lecture series hosted by the Annenberg Space for Photography. Their full schedule can be seen here.
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