A Mother's Journey and Selected Photographs

<p><b>Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs document a single mother's emotional and financial struggles as her son battles a rare form of childhood cancer.</b></p><p>This collection of photographs presents photojournalist Renée C. Byer's Pulitzer Prize-winning series A Mother's Journey along with other early and recent photographs. A Mother's Journey is an intimate portrayal of a single mother's emotional and financial struggles as her son battles neuroblastoma a rare form of childhood cancer. This year-long documentary project was originally published in the Sacramento Bee as a four-part series and on the Web as a multimedia package. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2007 the series won a World Understanding Award as well the Society of Professional Journalist's Sigma Delta Chi Award for feature photography. When done well said Byer photojournalism is a powerful tool because it connects people to the reality of life and can bring understanding and awareness to important issues.</p>