Chris Pietsch

Chris Pietsch is the director of photography for Gannett Newspapers in Oregon, The Register-Guard in Eugene and the Statesman Journal in Salem.

He has been a photographer for The Register-Guard since 1988. Before that he worked for the Daily News in Moscow, Idaho and the Lewiston Morning Tribune in Lewiston, Idaho.

He also teaches photojournalism and mobile journalist beat reporting at the University of Oregon as an adjunct instructor.

Pietsch has won numerous awards during his career including first place in the Pictures of the Year POYi annual contest, Portfolio of the Year from the Northwest Society of Professional Journalists, and individual category awards from Best of the West and The Oregon Newspaper Association and others.

He grew up in a newspaper family as the grandson of the publisher of the Sandpoint News-Bulletin in Sandpoint, Idaho. See his story at chrispietschmedia.com.