Hannah Gaber is a photographer, video producer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. She is passionate about exploring the world, connecting with people and striving to understand them, their cultures and their history. Her work in photography and journalism are expressions of this curiosity, and her deep desire to share what she learns with those who also wonder constantly about the world.  

Raised mostly in Arizona, Hannah split summers between Massachusetts with her father and Cyprus with her archaeologist mother. After graduating high school, she enrolled in the Savannah College of Art and Design. She specialized in fine art, focusing on wet process black and white photography. The darkroom was her sanctuary.

After graduating in 2004, she began an internship with fine art portrait photographer Joyce Tenneson in Manhattan, then returned to Savannah and began working as a portrait photographer in Hilton Head, where she shot digitally for the first time. During that time she shot for publications, weddings and events.

She moved to Tucson in 2011 for grad school at the University of Arizona -- graduating in 2016 with duel Master's in Journalism and Middle Eastern and North African Studies with a Graduate Certificate in Judaic Studies.

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While completing her degrees, she spent time in Turkey, Peru, Egypt, Dubai and Oman. She lived in Oman to make a documentary for her thesis project, spent a summer studying Arabic in Morocco after graduating, and then returned to Arizona, where she worked as a video journalist for the Arizona Republic in Phoenix before being awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Cyprus. At the end of her time there, she was hired as a video producer for USA TODAY, where she is now based at their headquarters in the DC area.