AWARDS

Eva has been nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize by The Richmond Times-Dispatch, twice for "Hard Time: The Richmond City Jail" and once for her work in New Orleans East four years after hurricane Katrina. She has also received multiple awards in contests held by the NPPA, VNPA, VPA, SND, and SNPA.



PROJECTS

November 2011
  • "Conjoined" - Photographs and HD video documentary project on the separation of nineteen month-old conjoined twins Maria and Teresa Tapia

January 2010
  • Multimedia coverage of the aftermath of the January 12th earthquake in Haiti

April 2009
  • Multimedia follow-up on Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi 
  • Week-long coverage in a Vietnamese community of New Orleans East to document rebuilding efforts since the storm

March 2009
  • Traveled to northern Uganda to document the work of a non-government organization administering AIDS clinics in Lira and Gulu, Uganda

April 2008 - present
  • "The PACT Team" - Multimedia project on a team of 13 social workers, nurses and psychotherapists with the Richmond Behavioral Health Authority, and the 101 mentally ill Richmond residents who are their patients

April 2007 - December 2007
  • "The Mentally Ill in the Richmond City Jail" - Multimedia project on the conditions of mentally ill inmates in the city jail

April 2007
  • Week-long coverage (4/16 - 4/22) of the Virginia Tech shooting massacre in Blacksburg, VA

February 2006 - December 2006
  • "Hard Time at the Richmond City Jail" - Multimedia project on life in the city jail, (e.g. overcrowding and conditions, and recidivism as a societal problem)

September 2005
  • 10 days in two hurricane-ravaged Mississippi communities
  • Still photographs focusing on the recovery in the wake of Katrina

October 2004 - June 2005
  • A year at the New Armstrong High School
  • Multimedia project on the first year after the merger of two historic Richmond City high schools

August 2004
  • "The Street Warriors" - Photo essay on a small group of ex-cons who turned their lives around after prison, and spend their days keeping Newark youths out of gangs


EXPERIENCE

July 2012 - present
  •     Freelance photojournalist
   
June 2005 - July 2012
  • Multimedia Photojournalist, Richmond Times-Dispatch
  • Richmond, VA
  • Specialties: still photography, audio and video

April 2012
  • Professional mentor with Momenta Workshops on the Project New Orleans 2012 workshop

February 2006
  • 2006 Winter Olympics, Torino, Italy
  • Freelancer for The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, VA
  • Blogged the experience at www.evarusso.blogspot.com

October 2004 - June 2005
  • Photo Intern, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, VA

August 2004 - October 2004
  • Freelancer, The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ

May 2004 - August 2004
  • Photo Intern, The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ

June 2003 - December 2003
  • Photo Intern, The Post Standard, Syracuse, NY


Additionally, I have freelance experience with prominent newspapers, such as: The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Charlotte Observer and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.



EDUCATION

January 2002 - May 2004
  • Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
  • S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication
  • Major: Photojournalism

September 2000 - July 2001
  • University of Torino, Italy
  • Major: Economics and Commerce

September 1999 - May 2000
  • American University of Paris, France
  • Major: International Communication


LANGUAGES 
  • Fluent in written and spoken Italian
  • Proficient in written and spoken French