April Saul is an American journalist. She specializes in documentary photojournalism.
Saul has photographed and written forThe Philadelphia Inquirer since 1981. In 1997, Saul, along with Inquirer reporterMichael Vitez and photographer Ron Cortes, was awarded thePulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for a series of articles on end-of-life care, telling the stories of terminally-ill patients who wished todie with dignity.
Saul became a photographer atThe Baltimore Sun in 1980, and the following year, joined the staff ofThe Philadelphia Inquirer. She was the first recipient of the Nikon/ NPPA Documentary Sabbatical Grant for her work onHmong refugees in 1985.
Over the last twenty-five years, she has won numerous honors, including theRobert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the World Press Photo Budapest Award for Humanistic Photography and on various occasions, been named Photographer of the Year by the Northern Short Course, the Pennsylvania Press Photographers Association and the New Jersey Press Photographers Association.
In January 2006, Saul "vowed to document in words and photos the death of every child by gun in the eight-county Philadelphia region in 2006."[3] The resulting column in the Philadelphia Inquirer was called "Kids, Guns and a Deadly Toll."
