G.J. McCarthy, a staff photographer at The Dallas Morning News has been a part of the DMN’s team coverage of the West Texan chemical plant explosion, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Hurricane Ike’s 2008 devastation of the Texas gulf coast. His contributions to the paper’s sports coverage range from high school to professional action and he has covered the World Series, the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup Series and NBA Championships. Gerry, as most people know him, says he as won some awards here and there, but is most proud of the opportunities he has had to document the people, places and things in the communities he has lived and worked in since beginning his career in photojournalism a decade ago. He graduated from The University of Texas' School of Journalism in 2002 and worked for The Paris News in northeast Texas and the Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, MO before joining the DMN staff in 2007.