who is Karen?
Karen Ducey was a staff photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, joining the newspaper in 2003 after working four years at The Indianapolis Star.
Prior to that,Ducey worked as a commercial fishermen in Alaska for almost a decade. In between fishing seasons, she worked as a freelance photographer finding a worldwide audience for her pictures. See some of her work on the National Geographic website.
In addition to many national awards, last year Ducey’s project “One Fatal Shot” was selected as a finalist in ASNE’s community service photojournalism award , finalist for a DART award for excellence in Coverage of Trauma, runner -up for a Casey Medal in the multimedia category, honored in the NPPA Best of Photojournalism pictures story category and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
In 2005 she began a photo column that ran in the P-I's metro section for a year. It has since moved exclusively to online, where it is independently managed at AnExtraordinaryTime.com
Karen currently lives in Seattle with her husband ,Dean Rutz, and their three beloved dogs.