Post's Elbert Returns to Photography

After two decades of leading our photo department into the front ranks of American photojournalism, Joe Elbert has asked to shed his management duties and become a photographer again. He wants to make the transition by the end of the year.

Since Joe took over the department in 1988, Washington Post photographers have won three Pulitzer Prizes, six national Photographer of the Year titles and seventeen White House News Photographers Association Photographer of the Year titles – an unmatched record of achievement.