UNC graduate wins College, Newspaper Photographer of the Year in same year

Posted Mar 6, 2016
The project starts with a picture of a woman standing among piles of waterlogged family belongings. It ends 10 photographs later, with her 7-year-old daughter floating peacefully on the river that flooded the family’s home five months prior. Photojournalist Carolyn Van Houten documented the story of the Bamberger family from Blanco, Texas. (Daily Tar Heel)

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