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Doug Mills and Moises Saman Win 2025 Pulitzer Prizes for Photography | PetaPixel

Doug Mills and Moises Saman Win 2025 Pulitzer Prizes for Photography

Doug Mills of the New York Times and Moises Saman, contributor to the New Yorker, have been named the winners of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/05/05/doug-mills-and-moises-saman-win-2025-pulitzer-prizes-for-photography/

Doug Mills, photographer for the New York Times, and Moises Saman, contributor to the New Yorker, have been named the winners of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in the two photography categories. Mills’s series of photos captured during the assassination attempt on Donald Trump won the Breaking News Photography category while Saman’s photos of the Sednya Prison in Syria took home the award for Feature Photography.

https://petapixel.com/2025/05/05/doug-mills-and-moises-saman-win-2025-pulitzer-prizes-for-photography/

May 6, 2025
Photographer Captures Bullet Whizzing Past Trump’s Head | PetaPixel

Photographer Captures Bullet Whizzing Past Trump’s Head

It’s a one-in-a-million shot.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/07/14/photographer-captures-bullet-whizzing-past-trumps-head/

A member of the Washington press corps, Doug Mills, captured one of the bullets that flew past Trump’s head during the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania last night.

https://petapixel.com/2024/07/14/photographer-captures-bullet-whizzing-past-trumps-head/

July 21, 2024
On Assignment: Up for the Downhill – Lens

On Assignment: Up for the Downhill

To photograph subjects who’ll be moving past him in a flash, Doug Mills spends weeks of preparation.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/assignment-32/

The regimen begins long before he arrives at a Winter Olympics site. Doug Mills, just shy of 50, calls himself a “survivor skier,” who must train for a few weeks to ensure he can ski safely to photographic vantages along the slopes. (You thought photographers got there by bus?)

January 10, 2020
Doug Mills Covers the London Olympics

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The New York Times staff photographer Doug Mills is covering his fifth summer Olympics, and he has photographed seven winter games. He spoke with James Estrin by phone.

January 10, 2020
Silent Sony a9 a ‘Great Advantage’ for Photographer at Democratic Debate

Silent Sony a9 a ‘Great Advantage’ for Photographer at Democratic Debate

There are pros and cons to both DSLR and mirrorless cameras, but one advantage of mirrorless is making headlines after the Democratic debates this week.

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2019/06/29/silent-sony-a9-a-great-advantage-for-photographer-at-democratic-debate/

But New York Times photographer Doug Mills wasn’t among those who had brought along a Canon or Nikon DSLR, which are still the dominant tools of choice among photojournalists. Mills was shooting with the Sony a9 mirrorless camera, which can shoot at 20 frames per second completely silently thanks to its electronic shutter.

July 1, 2019
Our White House Photographer on Covering President Trump – The New York Times

Our White House Photographer on Covering President Trump

Having covered the White House for over three decades, Doug Mills discusses the challenges of his job.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/lens/doug-mills-white-house-photograph-president-trump.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Having covered the White House for over three decades, Doug Mills discusses the challenges of his job.

March 8, 2019
NY Times Photographer: Trump Gives More Access Than Obama

NY Times Photographer: Trump Gives More Access Than Obama

A New York Times photographer who has vocally protested White House Press Pool blackouts is now saying that photographers get more access to Trump than

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/02/12/ny-times-photographer-trump-gives-access-obama/

Photojournalist Doug Mills made headlines back in November 2017 by Tweeting a black “photo” to protest the lack of access provided to the White House Travel Pool while President Trump was attending the APEC Summit in Vietnam.

However, Mills had much more positive things to say in a new interview that just aired yesterday on C-SPAN. Having covered both the Trump and Obama administrators, Mills stated that photographers are actually getting “a lot more” access to the current administration.

February 13, 2018
NYTimes Photog Tweets Blank Photo to Protest White House Pool Blackout

NYTimes Photog Tweets Blank Photo to Protest White House Pool Blackout

The photojournalists traveling in the White House Travel Pool aren’t happy with how much access (or lack thereof) they’re being given at an economic

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/11/11/nytimes-photog-tweets-blank-photo-protest-white-house-pool-blackout/

“This what our APEC Summit photo coverage looks today in Da Nang Vietnam,” writes New York Times photojournalist Doug Mills in the Tweet. “Blank. No coverage by the White House Travel Pool photographers traveling with [Trump].”

November 12, 2017
Capturing the Drama in Olympic Moments – The New York Times

Capturing the Drama in Olympic Moments

Doug Mills is photographing the Rio Olympics for The New York Times. He joined The Times in 2002 after working for The Associated Press and has shot almost every Olympics since the 1992 Winter Games. Based in Washington, Doug covers the White House when not photographing athletes.

He spoke with James Estrin by telephone from Rio de Janeiro

August 17, 2016
Obama’s Image Machine: Monopolistic Propaganda Funded by You

Obama’s Image Machine: Monopolistic Propaganda Funded by You

News organizations protest White House restrictions on independent photo coverage.

via National Journal: http://www.nationaljournal.com/pictures-video/obama-s-image-machine-monopolistic-propaganda-funded-by-you-20131121

New York Times photographer Doug Mills strode into Jay Carney’s office Oct. 29 with a pile of pictures taken exclusively by President Obama’s official photographer at events the White House press corps was forbidden to cover. “This one,” Mills said, sliding one picture after another off his stack and onto the press secretary’s desk. “This one, too – and this one and this one and … .”

The red-faced photographer, joined by colleagues on the White House Correspondents’ Association board, finished his 10-minute presentation with a flourish that made Carney, a former Moscow correspondent for Time, wince.

“You guys,” Mills said, “are just like Tass.”

November 21, 2013
Convention Storybook

Convention Storybook

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/17/us/politics/convention-storybook.html#/?slide=index

The New York Times has assembled a “Convention Storybook,” an online archive of the conventions. It is a look inside the two parties as they sought to articulate their platforms and positions as clearly as possible, without interference.

The “Convention Storybook” presents photographs by Stephen Crowley, Josh Haner, Todd Heisler, Doug Mills, Damon Winter, Mike Appleton, Travis Dove, Edward Linsmier, Luke Sharrett, Robert Stolarik, Max Whitaker and Jim Wilson. Michael Barbaro provided audio and it was produced by Nick Corasaniti, Jacqueline Myint and Cornelius Schmid

September 17, 2012
Doug Mills’s Photos of President Obama’s Secret Trip to Afghanistan

Link: NYTimes.com

And so a day that began at a stable ended in a top-secret meeting. Mr. Mills and a group of journalists were told they were about to embark upon a secret mission, to Afghanistan.

May 4, 2012
Doug Mills Returns to the Super Bowl on Sunday

Link: Lens

This weekend, Doug Mills will be in a familiar spot: on the sidelines of the Super Bowl. As a seasoned sports photographer — first with The Associated Press and now with The Times — he is the envy of the masses who have to watch from their La-Z-Boy recliners.

February 4, 2012
Shooting Twice, at Once

Shooting Twice, at Once

Doug Mills has come up with a simple but strangely elegant solution for shooting video and stills simultaneously.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/shooting-twice-at-once/

When shooting stills and video simultaneously, Doug Mills, a staff photographer in the Washington bureau of The New York Times, has tried a creative trick or two. He once strapped the video camera around his neck, using his stomach to hold it in place. The results, he said, were “freewheeling and dangling and very difficult to work with.”

July 14, 2011
Photographers debate what should replace staged photo opps now that White House is ending the practice

If the White House moves to a pool, said Doug Mills, White House photographer for The New York Times, “we are taking one step forward — we get live coverage — and four steps backward — we will lose four photographers from the room. “

He continued, “We clearly lose out in terms of perspective. There will be no wide shots or risk-taking, for that matter.”

Link: Photographers debate what should replace staged photo opps now that White House is ending the practice | Poynter.

May 13, 2011
On Assignment: Arlington Cemetery

On Assignment: Arlington Cemetery – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:

Doug Mills’s gripping and emotional image of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s burial — showing family members embracing in a glowing light and children kneeling before the casket — was the result of one of those risky but rewarding choices. It was published across five columns at the top of the front page in Sunday’s late edition.

August 31, 2009