Manny Crisostomo joined the Sacramento Bee in August 2002 as senior photographer. His career began at the Pacific Daily News, where he started as an intern reporter and advanced to photographer. Upon graduating in photojournalism from the University of Missouri, he went to work for the Detroit Free Press in 1982. While working for the Free Press his work was honored with multiple awards from The Associated Press, The News Press Photographers Association, the Society of Newspaper Designers as well as a photojournalism citation in the 1988 Robert F. Kennedy Awards for his work “Too Young to Die”. He was named Michigan Photographer of the Year in 1987 and 1988 and nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize, winning in 1989 for “A Class Act: The Life and Times of Southwestern High School”. In 1991, he returned to his native Guam to document the island and the Chamoru people and teach photojournalism at the University of Guam. In 1995, he founded Latte Magazine, a city magazine that chronicles the life and times of the people of Guam and Micronesia. Crisostomo has four published books - “Mainstreet: Small Town Michigan” (1986), “Moving Pictures: A Look at Detroit from High Atop the People Mover” (1987), “Legacy of Guam: I Kustumbren Chamoru” (1992) and “Guam from the Heavens” (1998). Most recently, his images of Hmong refugees won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for International Photography.