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Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist
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David Carl Turnley was born in Fort Wayne on June 22, 1955, the identical twin of Peter Turnley, and the brothers grew up on McClellan Street in the city's inner core. At seventeen they spent more than a year photographing their own street; the work became the book McClellan Street (2007). David graduated from the University of Michigan in 1977 with a degree in French literature and became a staff photographer at the Detroit Free Press, where he worked from 1980 to 1998. He won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his coverage of the 1989 revolutions in China and Eastern Europe; he also received two World Press Photo of the Year awards and the Robert Capa Gold Medal. He has since worked as a film director, making La Tropical and Shenandoah.
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Sources: University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (feature on the Turnley twins); Ad Age (profile).