Taro Yamasaki

About

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who documented the daily lives of inmates in Jackson Prison.

Before Fame

He moved to New York City in 1968 after dropping out of the University of Michigan during his senior year.

Trivia

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1981 for a photograph he took inside Jackson Prison.

Family Life

He has two sons with his second wife, Susan Waderlow, who he married in 1978.

Associated With

He took photos of Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment shortly after he was arrested.