Nate Guidry is an award-winning, old school, Domke vest-wearing former newspaper photographer, equally adept at photographing hard news and professional athletes as he is capturing images of world leaders, musicians, cultural icons and renowned doctors and scientist. Guidry, with colleagues at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue. Eleven people were killed as they gathered for worship. Guidry has photographed the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Guidry’s photography has taken him from Detroit to Panama City, Panama, from Ecuador to Vietnam. His work has appeared in most major newspapers as well as music magazines, including JazzTimes and DownBeat. Guidry has spent decades photographing musicians, including icons such as Wynton Marsalis, Gladys Knight and the late Aretha Franklin and Jamaican singer and songwriter Toots Hibbert, leader of the reggae and ska band Toots and the Maytals. Guidry has captured images of iconic American wood sculpture Thad Mosley. Guidry and Mosley have been friends for more than two decades.

When Tom Cruise was making “Jack Reacher” in Pittsburgh, Guidry captured a stunning image of him driving a 1970s Chevelle in the city. Guidry spent weeks documenting the making of “The Dark Knight Rises” and he also photographed Will Smith while he was shooting the movie “Concussion.”

Guidry spent a day photographing 2024 Paris gold medal hurdler Grant Holloway and Paralympic gold medal winner Grace Norman. Those images appeared on banners and digital billboards and in widely circulated magazines.

Guidry traveled to Vietnam in 2018 with a group of United States Marines for the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive. Many in the group fought in the Battle of Hue, a harrowing 31-day battle that would be one of the bloodiest combat operations of the war. Guidry is currently working on a self-assigned project documenting World War II veterans from western Pennsylvania. The project was inspired by the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Guidry is part of The Documentary Works, a collaboration of photographers that conduct photography and lighting workshops and that produces photo documentaries focusing on social and environmental justice. Guidry’s work has appeared in group exhibitions at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, Chatham University, The Westmoreland Museum of Modern Art and the Erie Art Museum.

Guidry has been a staff photographer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Detroit News and the Times-Picayune in New Orleans. Guidry was presented with the 2021 Wilbur Award, the highest honor the Religion Communicators Council can bestow, for “Callings: Portraits of Pittsburgh-area Faith Leaders.” Finalist for 2021 Photo of the Year awarded by the Jazz Journalists Association and also winner of multiple local, state and national journalism awards, including an “Excellence - in - Features Award” from the Society For Features Journalism for “Unsettled in America: Pittsburgh Latino Community is Small, Diverse, Growing — and Anxious.”

Guidry, a staff photographer at the University of Florida Health, is available for hire anywhere in the continental United States and Central and South America.