About Chris Pietsch

Chris Pietsch is the director of photography for Gannett Newspapers in Oregon, The Register-Guard in Eugene and the Statesman Journal in Salem.

He has been a photographer for the The Register-Guard since 1988. Before that he worked for the Daily News in Moscow, Idaho and the Lewiston Morning Tribune in Lewiston, Idaho.

He grew up in a newspaper family as the grandson of the publisher of the Sandpoint News-Bulletin, in Sandpoint, Idaho.