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Fred Zwicky

Peoria, IL
Visual News Editor/Journal Star

Fred Zwicky

About Fred

Photojournalist Fred Zwicky has documented life in central Illinois for the past 25 years, serving as Visual News Editor at the Peoria Journal Star and providing photo and video imagery for his commercial clients. Zwicky has won numerous awards, including: two-time National Press Photographers Region Five Photographer of the Year, three-time Illinois Press Photographers Clip Photographer of the Year, three-time winner of the Illinois AP Editors Sweepstakes Award for Best Photo of the Year. Fred also teaches photojournalism and video storytelling at Bradley University. With co-worker Teressa Hargrove, he founded a photojournalism scholarship in memory of Journal Star photographer Linda Henson, who died of breast cancer in 2000.