title: Annie Wells
text: # Annie Wells
  
  Annie Wells (born March 24, 1954) is an American photographer, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.
  
  ## Life
  
  She graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in 1981, and studied photojournalism at San Francisco State University where she was part of a group that won the RFK public service award.
  
  She worked as a photographer for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, San Francisco bureau Associated Press, the Greeley Tribune in Greeley, Colorado, and the Herald Journal in Logan, Utah.
  
  She joined the Los Angeles Times in 1997. In October 2008, she was laid off from the Los Angeles Times.
  
  She is a survivor of breast cancer.
  
  ## Award
  
  * 1997: Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
  