Justin Merriman

Who is Justin Merriman?

Justin Merriman is an American photojournalist.

A staff photographer at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Merriman has worked as a photojournalist with the Tribune-Review Publishing Company since 1999. He is a Greensburg, Pennsylvania native and a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Writing. He has spent the last 10 years documenting the world around him.

Merriman has photographed and covered many national and international stories, including the events of September 11 and the crash of United Flight 93, the Sago mine disaster in Sago, West Virginia, polio in India, life in Cuba, the 2008 Parliamentary Elections in Pakistan, the war in Afghanistan and stories across the country.

His photography has been recognized and honored with awards from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, the News Photographers Association of Greater Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania Press Club, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, the Northern Short Course, the Southern Short Course, the National Press Photographers Association, the Society for News Design, and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, he was named Photographer of the Year by the News Photographers Association of Greater Pittsburgh.