Three time Pulitzer Prize nominee Eva Russo is a former staff photographer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and currently the Social Media Strategist at Children’s Hospital of Richmond.

She was raised in Italy, lived briefly in France, and then settled in the United States. A graduate in photojournalism from the prestigious Newhouse School at Syracuse University, Eva uses photography, video, and audio in her photographic storytelling for clients.

Eva received two nominations for the Pulitzer Prize for her two-year-long project documenting living and working conditions in the Richmond City Jail. Her work focused on the daily life and struggles of the inmates as well as mental health and recidivism issues. Her third nomination came from a piece she created on a Momenta Workshop covering Vietnamese immigrants recovering from Hurricane Katrina.

She has covered daily assignments ranging from little league games to political campaigns to the Queen of England’s visit to Virginia. However, her passion for social documentary projects are what make her tick. Her accolades and award winning coverage for the paper include coverage of the Winter Olympics, the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi, the 2009 Presidential Inauguration and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Her work has been published in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Morning News among others.

We first worked with Eva as a student on our Project Uganda workshop where she documented AIDS clinics and communities in the war ravaged Northern territories. Her dedication for documentary humanitarian nonprofit stories lead us to offer her a position with Momenta. We are elated to have Eva join our team of instructors and she is one of our most popular faculty members to date.

See Eva’s work at http://evarussophotography.com and on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/emrusso80.