Sunrise spreads across Salem’s Riverfront Park Sunday as participants in the Salem Ironman competition walk to the starting point for the swimming competition. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)
Photojournalist Ron Cooper shares his favorite images from 2023 in Salem.
A long line of Salem Ironman competitors walk to the start of the swimming competition. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)Japanese lanterns illuminate the cherry blossoms at the State Capitol State Park on Thursday, April 13. The lanterns strung through the trees add to the evening aura. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)Japanese lanterns decorate the cherry blossoms at the State Capitol State Park on Thursday, April 13. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)Flowers in bloom at the State Capitol State Park on Thursday, April 13. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)Sunrise spreads across Salem’s Riverfront Park Sunday as participants in the Salem Ironman competition walk to the starting point for the swimming competition. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)A flag salute at the Oregon Veterans Day Ceremony in Salem on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023 (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)An honor guard fires a salute to fallen veterans during a Memorial Day observance Monday at City View Cemetery (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)Young and old dance together to celebrate the lighting of the menorah in Salem’s Mirror Park (Ron Cooper/ Salem Reporter)Tery Grisa, a professional fire performer, entertains the crowd Sunday at the lighting of the menorah (Ron Cooper/ Salem Reporter)A young man wearing a yarmulke walks away after a verbal disagreement with a pro-Palestinian group rallying near the Oregon State Capitol the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 10. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)Worshippers attended an outdoor mass in the rain at St. Joseph Catholic Church on Thursday, Aug. 31 after a fire damaged the main sanctuary (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)Worshippers attended an outdoor mass in the rain at St. Joseph Catholic Church on Thursday, Aug. 31 after a fire damaged the main sanctuary (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)
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Photographer Ron Cooper and his wife Penny moved to Salem in 1969 to take a job as photographer at the Oregon Statesman (later the Statesman Journal). Their three children, Monica, Kimberly, and Christopher, attended and graduated from Salem public schools. Cooper retired from the Statesman Journal in 2001 but, has continued his passion for photography in many ways, including as a photographer for the Salem Reporter.
