FAIRFIELD, CA - AUGUST 19: during the LNU Lightning Complex fire in Solano County, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2020. More Northern Californians were chased out of their homes Wednesday by lightning-sparked wildfires that burned out of control in several counties amid a punishing heat wave that pushed temperatures into the triple digits. Photographer: Philip Pacheco/Bloomberg

Noah Berger

Noah Berger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning freelance photojournalist with 30 years of experience shooting for editorial, corporate, and government clients. He works regularly with major outlets including the Associated Press and San Francisco Chronicle, specializing in wildfires, social unrest, and breaking news.

Since covering the 2013 Rim Fire, Noah has devoted much of his time to documenting California’s largest wildfires, often spending days in the field under extreme conditions. His coverage of California’s deadliest fire season earned him Pulitzer Prize finalist recognition in 2019, and he went on to win the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography with Associated Press colleagues for coverage of Black Lives Matter protests.

A New York native, Noah lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, son, and Labrador.

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Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Fire consumes a home as the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, tears through Doyle, Calif., on Saturday, July 10, 2021. Pushed by heavy winds, the fire came out of the hills and destroyed multiple residences in central Doyle. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Federal officers disperse Black Lives Matter protesters at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Friday, July 24, 2020, in Portland, Ore. Since federal officers arrived in downtown Portland in early July, violent protests have largely been limited to a two block radius from the courthouse. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Karyn Larson watches an air tanker drop retardant as the Electra Fire burns towards her home in the Pine Acres community of Amador County, Calif., on Tuesday, July 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Federal officers use chemical irritants and projectiles to disperse Black Lives Matter protesters at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Friday, July 24, 2020, in Portland, Ore. Since federal officers arrived in downtown Portland in early July, violent protests have largely been limited to a two block radius from the courthouse. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Jeanette Scroggins pauses while searching for signs of her aunt, Karen Aycock, who has been missing since the Tubbs fire roared through her Coffey Park neighborhood in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017.

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Federal officers use crowd control munitions to disperse Black Lives Matter protesters outside the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Flames engulf a chair inside a burning home as the Oak Fire burns in Mariposa County, Calif., on Saturday, July 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Federal officers disperse Black Lives Matter demonstrators at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Wednesday, July 22, 2020, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Snow surrounds the second story of a home in the Camp Sacramento community of Eldorado National Forest, Calif., on Monday, March 4, 2024.

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Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters hold their phones aloft on Monday, July 20, 2020, in Portland, Ore (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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A Black Lives Matter protester carries an American flag as teargas fills the air outside the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Fire consumes a home as the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, tears through Doyle, Calif., on Saturday, July 10, 2021. Pushed by heavy winds, the fire came out of the hills and destroyed multiple residences in central Doyle. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Hana Mohsin, right, carries belongings from a neighbor’s home which was damaged in a mudslide on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Salinas, Calif. The area, located beneath the River Fire burn scar, is susceptible to landslides as heavy rains hit hillsides scorched during last year’s wildfires. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Grant Douglas pauses to drink water while evacuating as the Park Fire jumps Highway 36 near Paynes Creek in Tehama County, Calif., on Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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In advance of Fleet Week performances, the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and Team Oracle aerobatics pilot Sean D. Tucker fly over the San Francisco Bay during a photo flight on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Firefighters battle the Marsh Fire near Brentwood, Calif., on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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A manís foot protrudes from a cover as he sleeps on a Mission St. sidewalk at the corner of 2nd St. on Tuesday, June 18, 2019, in San Francisco. EDITOR: He did not wake up for me to get info.

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Megan Flanagan, 27, right, embraces neighbor Felicity Fain, 34, after seeing her destroyed Butte Creek Mobile Home Park home for the first time since the Camp Fire leveled it in Chico, Calif., on Monday, Nov. 26, 2018. All homes in the complex burned. Flanagan, who is staying with friends, says she only had time to grab her wedding dress and two days of clothes as she fled the blaze. (Photo by Noah Berger)

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Seen in a long exposure photograph, embers light up a hillside behind the Bidwell Bar Bridge as the Bear Fire burns in Oroville, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. The blaze, part of the lightning-sparked North Complex, expanded at a critical rate of spread as winds buffeted the region. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Snow surrounds the second story of a home in the Camp Sacramento community of Eldorado National Forest, Calif., on Monday, March 4, 2024.

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Fire consumes a home as the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, tears through Doyle, Calif., on Saturday, July 10, 2021. Pushed by heavy winds, the fire came out of the hills and destroyed multiple residences in central Doyle. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)