Scott Strazzante joined the photography staff at the San Francisco Chronicle in 2014 after spending the first 27 years of his career at Chicago newspapers, including 13 at the Chicago Tribune. Strazzante is a former POY/NPPA National Newspaper Photographer of the Year, an 11-time Illinois Photographer of the Year and was part of a Chicago Tribune team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for investigative journalism. Strazzante’s Common Ground has been published in numerous newspapers and in video form by MediaStorm. The personal project has been featured in National Geographic, Mother Jones, New York Times’ Lens Blog and on CBS Sunday Morning. The two decades long endeavor has won BOP’s Best Feature Video and POYi’s Community Awareness Award and became Strazzante's first book in 2014. In 2017, Strazzante's second book, Shooting from the Hip, was released. The book consists of black and white iPhone Hipstamatic images from around the USA.