Edmund Fountain

Edmund D. Fountain is an award-winning independent photojournalist and editorial photographer based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

He graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology and spent a decade as a staff photographer at the Tampa Bay Times (formerly St. Petersburg Times) covering sports, local, national and international news. He has called southeastern Louisiana home since 2014 and has devoted himself to telling stories in the southern United States since then.

He is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Local Reporting) for a series of stories examining a century of abuse at a Florida reform school. These stories ultimately helped shut down the school and sparked ongoing exhumation work to identify the remains of children buried in unmarked graves on the school’s campus. The remains of several children have since been returned to their families. The stories helped inspire the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys.

He's also a recipient of the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma and the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. His photographs have been honored multiple times by the National Press Photographers Association, The Society for News Design, The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, Best of Photojournalism and the Florida Society of News Editors. A selection of his photographs is in the permanent collection of the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts.