Jay Mather has been a working photojournalist since 1972. His passion for documentary photography began while he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia in 1969-70. He has worked at newspapers in Denver, CO, Louisville, KY and Sacramento, CA. In 1979 he and fellow journalist, Joel Brinkley, traveled to the Thailand-Cambodia border to witness the massive exodus of refugees fleeing the wrath of the Khmer Rouge regime. This was the beginning of what the world would come to know as the "Killing Fields." Their work, "Living the Cambodian Nightmare," was published as a five-day series in the Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Jay received the 1981 Robert F. Kennedy Award. His long-term project, "Yosemite, A Landscape of Life," was a Pulitzer finalist in 1991 and was published in book form by the Yosemite Association. He also documented the Sacramento Bee's 1992 project "The Sierra In Peril" that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He worked extensively with the Sacramento Ballet as their production photographer from 1996 to 2007 and documented the company's first international tour to China. Jay currently works as a volunteer with the Deschutes Land Trust and the Sisters Folk Festival in Sisters, Oregon.
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