Who is Karen?
Karen Ducey was a staff photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for six years, 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, in 2008 her multimedia 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 weekly 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 graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a BA in political science. Later, she attended the MFA Photography program at the School of Visual Arts for two years. She is currently a full time student of digital multimedia in the worker retraining programs at the Seattle Community Colleges.
She currently lives in Seattle with her husband ,Dean Rutz, and their three beloved dogs.