Tyler Hicks War Photographer Presentation

                               


                

     Tyler Hicks New York Time Staff          Photographer

        The 54 year old Tyler Hicks was born in San Paulo, Brazil on July 9, 1969. He went on to earn his B.A. in journalism at Boston University. Graduating in 1992. He worked as a photographer's assistant at a commercial studio. Then as a photographer at The Troy Daily. He became a staff photographer for The New York Times as a contract photographer in Kenya in 1999, photographing news stories in East and West Africa. Then after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he traveled to Afghanistan for the Times and arrived in Kabul as the Northern Alliance liberated the city from Taliban control. He returned to Afghanistan yearly until the US pull out last year. 

    In 2009, Tyler was a member of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He also received the Newspaper Photographer of the Year award from Pictures of the Year International for his work in 2006. In 2001, He was the recipient of the 2001 ICP Infinity Award for Photojournalism for his coverage in Afghanistan, as well as other awards. He was given the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting in 2012, with Jeffrey Gettleman, for coverage of Somalia and the Horn of Africa


                     

He was interviewed by Terry Gross' NPR  show Fresh Air on April 24, 2014. He was a guest on the show for winning the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for the coverage of the 2013 terrorist attack by Islamist extremists on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. At least 67 people were killed and over 175 injured, Hicks rushed into the mall after the attack began and took pictures as the story unfolded. 

                                         This is the photo that won him the Pulitzer

   

 He is now covering the war in Ukraine. This is my favorite photo he has taken there because of the colors and the subject, the mother, is trying to give her children some sence of normalcy in their lives.












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