G20 Summit - Tuesday

Written By Justin Merriman
Lisa Fithian, 48, of Austin, Texas an activist with the Pagan Cluster, an earth based spirituality group, is told to leave the premises as her and a group of protesters marched through the PPG Plaza, Downtown on Tuesday. The demonstrators were told by police that the plaza is private property and forced them to leave.
Sally Fox, 26, of Spokane, WA., protests against police intimidation near the Westin Convention Center, Downtown on Tuesday.
A demonstrator hangs a sign up on the parking garage across from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh along the Boulevard of the Allies on Tuesday.
Pittsburgh Police Office James Vogel instructs Lisa Fithian, 48, of Austin, Texas an activist with the Pagan Cluster, an earth based spirituality group, to not block the sidewalks during their protest in front of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Downtown on Tuesday.
Elizabeth West, 45, West Jefferson, NC., an activist with the Pagan Cluster, an earth based spirituality group, protests in PPG Plaza, Downtown on Tuesday. The demonstrators were told by police that the plaza is private property and forced them to leave.
A protester holds a sign up to a bus carrying people from the coal industry from an event at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh along the Boulevard of the Allies on Tuesday.
Masked protesters march down Grant Street near the U.S. Steel Tower, Downtown on Tuesday.

Here are a few photos from the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, September 22, 2009.
Justin Merriman

Justin Merriman, a freelance photojournalist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has traveled the world to cover politics, wars, natural disasters, civil unrest as well as covering assignment throughout the United States. His work has appeared in leading national publications and he has received multiple top journalism awards.   

After covering the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks – including the crash of United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania – Merriman committed to chronicling the U.S. military and its war on terror.  He has followed this story across the United States and into the conflict zones of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He also has covered life in Fidel Castro’s Cuba in 2002, India’s efforts to eradicate polio from its population, the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Cuba in 2012, the 2013 conclave and election of Pope Francis in Rome, the second anniversary of Egypt’s revolution and subsequent unrest, Russia’s invasion of Crimea and the international political crisis that unfolded in Ukraine in 2014, a look inside of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in 2015 and its uncertain future, and most recently, traveled the entire U.S. border with Mexico documenting issues on immigration. 

Merriman’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Time, USA Today, Sports Illustrated and other publications across the globe. 

He has been recognized with numerous regional, national and international awards from organizations including Pictures of the Year International, Society of Professional Journalists, the National Press Photographers Association, the Society for News Design, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, the Northern Short Course, the Southern Short Course, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the Military Reporters and Editors Association, and the Western Pennsylvania Press Club. He was awarded Photographer of the Year by the News Photographer Association of Greater Pittsburgh four times and most recently was honored with the Keystone Press Award’s 2016 Distinguished Visual Award from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association.

Born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Merriman graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Writing. In 2009, the university awarded him its prestigious Alumnus of Distinction award. 

Currently Merriman lives in Oakmont with his fiancé, Stephanie Strasburg, a photojournalist with PublicSource. 

http://www.justinmerriman.com
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