In Guam, Manny is best known for his stunning photographs that
document the lives and culture of the indigenous Chamorro people,
including the publication of Legacy of Guam: I Kustumbren Chamoru,
and that showcase the island’s beautiful landscape as seen in Guam
From the Heavens. Manny was also the publisher, editor-in-chief and
creative director of Latte Magazine, a monthly publication highlighting
life in Guam and Micronesia. It was during his seven years at Latte
from 1995-2002 that Manny paved the way for progressive and
even incongruent approaches that addressed stereotypes, mixed
highbrow and lowbrow culture, juxtaposed urbanized island life and
cultural traditions, exposed political scandal and taboo subjects, and
promoted the discussion of the diverse communities and complex
cultures of Guam.
Manny won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in
1989 for a special section in the Detroit Free Press, “A Class Act, The
Life and Times of Southwestern High School,” which featured more
than 60 photographs documenting the challenges faced by teenagers
whose racially diverse community contends with drugs, violence,
and economic hardship. With “The Leftover People,” a photographic
project in which he chronicled the last wave of Hmong refugees
making their way from Thailand to Sacramento, Manny gives voice to
an invisible and displaced people, and won the Robert F. Kennedy
Journalism Award for the Disadvantaged in international photography
in 2005. His multimedia work for a four-part series on childhood
obesity, “The Weight,” tells the stories of three students at the nation’s
first weight loss boarding school, and earned Manny the McClatchy
President’s Award as well as an EPPY Award in 2007.
More recently, Manny has focused his notable photographic practice
on a wide-range of topics and subjects, from the Sacramento Ballet,
the San Francisco 49ers and the California State Fair to protests
around gun violence and the death penalty, children with disabilities
and rural California landscapes. In May of this year, Manny returned to
Guam to document the 12th Festival of Pacific Arts with striking black
and white, as well as color, images of Pacific Islanders and their rich
artistic and cultural heritage. Manny Crisostomo, has stayed on the cutting
edge of photojournalism, discovering ways to push multimedia and
storytelling in new and exciting directions.
– Dr. Kimberlee Kihleng, Executive Director, Humanities Guåhan
document the lives and culture of the indigenous Chamorro people,
including the publication of Legacy of Guam: I Kustumbren Chamoru,
and that showcase the island’s beautiful landscape as seen in Guam
From the Heavens. Manny was also the publisher, editor-in-chief and
creative director of Latte Magazine, a monthly publication highlighting
life in Guam and Micronesia. It was during his seven years at Latte
from 1995-2002 that Manny paved the way for progressive and
even incongruent approaches that addressed stereotypes, mixed
highbrow and lowbrow culture, juxtaposed urbanized island life and
cultural traditions, exposed political scandal and taboo subjects, and
promoted the discussion of the diverse communities and complex
cultures of Guam.
Manny won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in
1989 for a special section in the Detroit Free Press, “A Class Act, The
Life and Times of Southwestern High School,” which featured more
than 60 photographs documenting the challenges faced by teenagers
whose racially diverse community contends with drugs, violence,
and economic hardship. With “The Leftover People,” a photographic
project in which he chronicled the last wave of Hmong refugees
making their way from Thailand to Sacramento, Manny gives voice to
an invisible and displaced people, and won the Robert F. Kennedy
Journalism Award for the Disadvantaged in international photography
in 2005. His multimedia work for a four-part series on childhood
obesity, “The Weight,” tells the stories of three students at the nation’s
first weight loss boarding school, and earned Manny the McClatchy
President’s Award as well as an EPPY Award in 2007.
More recently, Manny has focused his notable photographic practice
on a wide-range of topics and subjects, from the Sacramento Ballet,
the San Francisco 49ers and the California State Fair to protests
around gun violence and the death penalty, children with disabilities
and rural California landscapes. In May of this year, Manny returned to
Guam to document the 12th Festival of Pacific Arts with striking black
and white, as well as color, images of Pacific Islanders and their rich
artistic and cultural heritage. Manny Crisostomo, has stayed on the cutting
edge of photojournalism, discovering ways to push multimedia and
storytelling in new and exciting directions.
– Dr. Kimberlee Kihleng, Executive Director, Humanities Guåhan