Award winning photojournalist Pete Marovich has been working as a professional photographer for 24 years since starting as a staff photographer at a medium-sized daily newspaper in Indiana and as a stringer for the Associated Press. From 1986 until 1999, Pete worked as a contract photographer for major golf publications while covering the professional golf tours. He has been published in most every major golf publication worldwide. Pete returned to newspaper photojournalism in 2001 and is now the Director of Photography at the Daily News-Record, a medium-sized daily newspaper in Virginia. He is the 2008 National Press Photographers Association Region 3 Photographer of the year as well as runner up in 2006. He has recently had images from the inauguration of President Barack Obama on display at the Smithsonian Museum of American History as part of the "I Do Solemnly Swear: Photographs of the 2009 Inauguration" exhibition.