MICHEL FORTIER

Visual Journalist

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Michel Fortier is a seven-year veteran of the Naples Daily News and is a graduate of the Western Kentucky University School of Journalism where he won numerous awards. Those awards include the Alexia Tsairis Foundation Scholarship, numerous category wins in the College Photographer of the Year competition and first place in the Hearst Photojournalism Competition, considered to be the Pulitzer Prize of collegiate photojournalism. He also studied abroad at Ho Chi Minh City University in Vietnam where he studied Vietnamese language and culture and worked on documentary projects in his free time. During his short newspaper career, Michel has also worked for The Dallas Morning News, Minneapolis Star-Tribune and the New York Daily News before becoming a staff photographer at the Naples Daily News in 1998. Since becoming a staff photographer, he has won dozens of awards at the national and state level.

Recent stories:

• Our World: Bonita barbershop gives veterans free haircuts
  November 23, 2008
• Our World: In sickness and in health
  November 9, 2008
• Our World: Like a champion
  August 17, 2008
• Estudiantes de Lee estarán en ‘buenas manos’ para su regreso a clases
  August 14, 2008
• Our World: In (and out) of the zone
  June 8, 2008
• Our World: More than the light bulb
  April 27, 2008
• Our World: The catbird seat
  April 20, 2008
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Governor Charlie Crist made an appearance in Collier County Tuesday, August 19, 2008 in the wake of tropical storm Fay, congratulating emergency personnel at the Collier County EOC for their efforts. Michel Fortier/Naples Daily News


The Shore family from Chicago and the Medcalf family from Tennessee came together for some tag football along a crowded northern border of Barefoot Beach in Collier County on Friday. "It's 40 degrees in Chicago," said Clyde Shores when asked why he brought the family to the beach. Michel Fortier/Staff


Preston Shores, 6, left, tries to chase down his twin brother Trevor Shores, 6, right, while playing football with family members Friday along the Southwest Florida gulf coast. The Shore family from Chicago and the Medcalf family from Tennessee came together for some tag football along a crowded northern border of Barefoot Beach in Collier County on Friday. "It's 40 degrees in Chicago," said Clyde Shores when asked why he brought the family to the beach. Michel Fortier/Staff


The Shore family from Chicago and the Medcalf family from Tennessee came together for some tag football along a crowded northern border of Barefoot Beach in Collier County on Friday. "It's 40 degrees in Chicago," said Clyde Shores when asked why he brought the family to the beach. Michel Fortier/Staff


The Shore family from Chicago and the Medcalf family from Tennessee came together for some tag football along a crowded northern border of Barefoot Beach in Collier County on Friday. "It's 40 degrees in Chicago," said Clyde Shores when asked why he brought the family to the beach. Michel Fortier/Staff

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