ane Tyska began photographing at age five on a kindergarten field trip to the Bronx Zoo, and hasn’t stopped since. A photo and video journalist at the Oakland Tribune/Bay Area News Group, she recently won multiple awards in both stills and video for coverage of the late-night raids, rallies and marches of the Occupy Movement. Jane’s ability to multitysk has helped her promote the paper’s websites and break news through the use of social media in the field. In the past year, she’s completed a picture story on former New York Times’ reporter Mark Hawthorne, who now lives in People’s Park and is known as “Hate Man”. Jane also writes for her self-initiated pieces such as Hate Man. She is currently documenting the story of Matthew Ouimet, 23 months, who is awaiting a liver and kidney transplant.
In 2010, she spent a month in Nepal and Bhutan following a Bhutanese refugee family from a camp in eastern Nepal to their new home in Oakland, and continued to document them up until the birth of their first baby. Jane also documented the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti and a local contractor’s efforts to help rebuild. She has won numerous awards, including a national award for the Bhutan project from the South Asian Journalists Association and a YIPPA international press photo award for her Haiti work and featured in their book, as well as recent awards from the California Newspapers Publishers Association and the East Bay and Peninsula Press Clubs.
Jane previously worked for the Portsmouth Press in Portsmouth, NH and Community Newspaper Company in Boston, which included the Cambridge Chronicle and other local papers.
