John Kaplan (photographer)

This article is about the photographer. For other uses, see John Kaplan (disambiguation).

John Kaplan is an American photographer who won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography "for his photographs depicting the diverse lifestyles of seven 21-year-olds across the United States".^[1]

John Kaplan
Nationality	American
Awards	Pulitzer Prize Fulbright Scholar
Scientific career
Fields	Photography
Institutions	University of Florida

Kaplan attended Mount Pleasant High School in Wilmington, Delaware, graduating in 1977.^[2] Kaplan graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in 1982 and later graduated with a master's degree in journalism from the school in 1998. In 1999 he became a faculty member at the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.^[3]

In April 2008 Kaplan was named a Fulbright Scholar.^[3] The same year, Kaplan was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a condition which is in remission as of 2011 after treatment.^[2] Kaplan has reported his experience with cancer in an award-winning documentary film entitled Not As I Pictured.^[2]