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Published, November 8, 2024: 'KAMALA' Pictures by 4 time Pulitzer Prize winning ZUMA Press photographer Carol Guzy: In January 2021, Kamala Harris made history as the first woman, the first Black American, and the first South Asian American to serve as Vice President of the United States. She also made history as the first Black woman and the first South Asian woman to be a major political party's nominee for president. Harris, born October 20, 1964, is the older daughter of Donald J. Harris, an economist from Jamaica, and Shyamala Gopalan, a breast cancer researcher from India. She has one sister, Maya Harris, and a niece, Meena Harris. In 2014, Harris married California lawyer Doug Emhoff, who has two children from his previous marriage, Cole and Ella. And a note on her name: Kamala is pronounced 'comma-la,' and it means lotus flower. As she writes in her memoir, The Truths We Hold, 'A lotus flower grows underwater, its flower rising above the surface while its roots are planted firmly in the river bottom.' Here, photo-journalist Carol Guzy documents in these remarkable images, Kamala Harris's run for the 2024 Presidency of the United States.
© zReportage.com Issue #962 Story of the Week: Published, November 8, 2024: 'KAMALA' Pictures by 4 time Pulitzer Prize winning ZUMA Press photographer Carol Guzy: In January 2021, Kamala Harris made history as the first woman, the first Black American, and the first South Asian American to serve as Vice President of the United States. She also made history as the first Black woman and the first South Asian woman to be a major political party's nominee for president. Harris, born October 20, 1964, is the older daughter of Donald J. Harris, an economist from Jamaica, and Shyamala Gopalan, a breast cancer researcher from India. She has one sister, Maya Harris, and a niece, Meena Harris. In 2014, Harris married California lawyer Doug Emhoff, who has two children from his previous marriage, Cole and Ella. And a note on her name: Kamala is pronounced 'comma-la,' and it means lotus flower. As she writes in her memoir, The Truths We Hold, 'A lotus flower grows underwater, its flower rising above the surface while its roots are planted firmly in the river bottom.' Here, photo-journalist Carol Guzy documents in these remarkable images, Kamala Harris's run for the 2024 Presidency of the United States.

Carol Guzy

CAROL GUZY is an American documentary photojournalist. As a young girl, ZUMA Press photographer, Carol Guzy always wanted to be an artist. But as she was coming of age in a working-class family in Bethlehem, Pa., such an ambition seemed impossible. ''Everyone I knew said, 'Oh, if you're an artist, you'll starve,''' she recalls. ''You have to do something really practical.''' So Guzy chose to go to nursing school. Halfway through she realized she would not, could not, be a nurse. ''I was scared to death I was going to kill someone by making some stupid mistake,'' she laughs. So while she was trying to figure out what to do with her life, a friend gave her a camera and she took a photography course. Guzy fascination with photography led to an internship and then a job at the Miami Herald. In 1988 she moved to The Washington Post. Carol photographs have won four Pulitzer Prizes and three Photographer of the Year awards in the National Press Photographers' annual contest. ''I don't believe the Pulitzers belong to us, I think we just accept them for the people who are in our stories,'' said Guzy. ''They're the courageous ones.'' From her shots of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti to Albanian refugees fleeing violence in Kosovo, Guzy captures moments of disaster and human suffering:962

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