Awards & Winners

Tyler Hicks

Date of Birth 09-July-1969
Place of Birth São Paulo
(São Paulo, Brazil)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Photographer, Journalist
Tyler Hicks is an American photojournalist who works as a staff photographer for The New York Times. Based in Kenya, he typically covers foreign affairs, with an emphasis in recent years on conflict and war, but also works at times on assignments across the United States. Hicks was named the newspaper photographer of the year by the Missouri School of Journalism's Pictures of the Year International contest in 2007. He shared the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting with a team from The New York Times recognized for coverage of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he works frequently in the field, focusing on the ground-level experience. In 2010, his photographs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with the war correspondence of his colleagues Dexter Filkins and C.J. Chivers, with whom he often works, were selected by New York University as being among the Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade. Hicks received a George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting in 2011. Hicks was previously a freelance photographer based in Africa and the Balkans, and worked for newspapers in North Carolina and Ohio.

Awards by Tyler Hicks

Check all the awards nominated and won by Tyler Hicks.

2014


Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
(For his compelling pictures that showed skill and bravery in documenting the unfolding terrorist attack at Westgate mall in Kenya.)

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
For his compelling pictures that showed skill and bravery in documenting the unfolding terrorist attack at Westgate mall in Kenya.

2013


World Press Photo Award for Spot News
Honored for : Massacre at Westgate Mall
(Stories)

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
For his powerful pictures chronicling deadly destruction in Gaza following a retaliatory bombing by Israel.
World Press Photo Award for Spot News Massacre at Westgate Mall
Stories

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
For their comprehensive portfolio of dramatic yet humane images from the war in Afghanistan.

2001


World Press Photo Award for Spot News
Honored for : 2001 World Press Photo Award for Spot News winning portfolio
(Stories)

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Press Photo Award for Spot News 2001 World Press Photo Award for Spot News winning portfolio
Stories