Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Manny Crisostomo began his career at the Pacific Daily News as an intern reporter and then as a photo lab technician graduating with a photojournalism degree from the University of Missouri, he began working for the Detroit Free Press in 1982. As a photojournalist he won multiple awards from The Associated Press, United Press International, as well as the Kennedy Award for coverage of the disadvantaged in his work, Too Young to Die. He was named the Michigan Photographer of the Year in 1987 and 1988 and won awards in 1989 from the News Press Photographers Association and the Society of Newspaper Designers. Thrice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Manny won the prestigious award in 1989 for " A Class Act" life in a Detroit inner-city high school.
He returned to Guam in 1991 to document his island and his people in "Legacy of Guam: I Kustumbren Chamoru" while also Teaching Photojournalism at the University of Guam. In 1995 he founded Latte Magazine. And has been celebrating the life culture of the people of Guam ever since. Crisostomo 's work has appeared in Life, Newsweek, People Magazine, the Best of Photojournalism and other national publications. He has published three other books - Main street: A Portrait of Small Town Michigan (1986), Moving Pictures: A Look at Detroit from High Atop the People Mover (1987), Legacy of Guam: I Kustumbren Chamoru `1992.
