Tag: Tyler Hicks

New York Times Photographers in Ukraine on the Images They Can’t Forget – The New York Times

Our Photographers in Ukraine on the Images They Can’t Forget

In a year of war, New York Times photographers have reported from the front line, from cities and villages and in the footsteps of refugees. These pictures stayed with them.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/world/europe/ukraine-war-anniversary-photos.html

Here, instead, 14 photographers who have worked in Ukraine for The Times each answer the same two questions: What image has stayed with you from your coverage of the first year of the war, and why?

February 24, 2023
The Afghan War: A Photographer’s Journal Since 2001 – The New York Times

The Afghan War: A Photographer’s Journal

The Times photographer Tyler Hicks, who chronicled the 20-year war, captured American troops in battle, the deaths of civilians, schoolgirls in class and the struggles of ordinary Afghans to survive.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/world/asia/afghanistan-war-photos.html

One of the first things the New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks witnessed after arriving in Afghanistan in late 2001, soon after U.S. airstrikes on Oct. 7 opened the invasion, was the execution of a wounded Taliban fighter. The scene shocked him, upending everything he thought he knew about war and about the Afghan Northern Alliance — the U.S.-aligned fighters who had been his guides and protectors, and the Talib’s killers.

October 8, 2021
Tyler Hicks, Lynsey Addario, Two Other NY Times Journalists Missing In Libya

Four New York Times Journalists Are Missing in Libya

The Times said Wednesday that editors were last in contact with the missing journalists on Tuesday morning.

via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/four-new-york-times-journalists-are-missing-in-libya/

The missing journalists are Anthony Shadid, the Beirut bureau chief and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting; Stephen Farrell, a reporter and videographer who was kidnapped by the Taliban in 2009 and rescued by British commandos; and two photographers, Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario, who have worked extensively in the Middle East and Africa.

January 10, 2020
How Tyler Hicks Works In Afghanistan

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While researching our latest guide “Starting a Photography Business,” I had the chance to speak with Greg Smith, who helped develop the NPPA’s Cost of Doing Business calculator while servicing on the Business Practices committee in 2003. He had a lot of tough advice for people starting out in the business, and some of what we talked about echoed John Harrington’s advice about day rates.

January 10, 2020
TIME Picks the Best Photos of 2013: Bangladesh, Syria, and More

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Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/

Our top ten photographs of 2013 celebrate a variety of images from a multitude of photographers, including seasoned photojournalists Tyler Hicks (the Westgate Mall Massacre in Nairobi), Philippe Lopez, (Super Typhoon Haiyan’s destructive wrath upon the Philippines), and John Tlumacki, for his extraordinary coverage of the terror bombing at the Boston Marathon.

January 10, 2020
Recognizing Outstanding Photojournalism Overseas

Recognizing Outstanding Photojournalism Overseas

The Overseas Press Club has honored several photographers for their coverage of conflicts that have spanned decades, or almost escaped attention.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/recognizing-outstanding-photojournalism-overseas/

In an interview today, Mr. Hicks spoke of the many great war photographers who have won the Robert Capa gold medal, including David Douglas Duncan, Larry Burrows, W. Eugene Smith, Eddie Adams and Carolyn Cole.

January 10, 2020
Why There Aren’t Any Photos of Hamas Fighters (and Why the NYT, Tyler Hicks and Photographers Have Been Unfairly Blamed) — BagNews

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The gist of the argument is that Hicks and the other Western photographers could easily seek out and photograph Hamas fighters, and thus balance out the coverage, but they have been too bullied and intimidated to do so.

January 10, 2020
Photography Pulitzer for Coverage of Refugee Crisis – The New York Times

Photography Pulitzer for Coverage of Refugee Crisis

The New York Times and Thomson Reuters shared the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of Europe’s refugee crisis. Jessica Rinaldi of the Boston Globe won the feature photography prize for her story of a boy who endured abuse at the h

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/photography-pulitzer-for-coverage-of-refugee-crisis/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0

The New York Times and Thomson Reuters shared the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of Europe’s refugee crisis. The Times’s team was comprised of Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter. This is the newspaper’s fourth photo Pulitzer in the past three years.

April 19, 2016
2016 Photography Pulitzer Winners Accounced

2016 Photography Pulitzer Winners Accounced

Two photo teams have won for Breaking News Photography this year—both for coverage of the refugee crisis. The Feature Photography prize went to Jessica Rinaldi.

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/04/2016-photography-pulitzer-goes.html

Two photo teams have won Pulitzer Prizes for Breaking News Photography this year: one prize went to Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter of The New York Times and the second went to the photography staff of Thompson Reuters. The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography went to Jessica Rinaldi of The Boston Globe. The prizes were announced this afternoon at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York.

April 18, 2016
Photographing War: Tyler Hicks

Link: Photographing War: Tyler Hicks | PROOF

Photojournalist Tyler Hicks spoke at the 2014 National Geographic Photography Seminar in January—an annual celebration of photography held at the society’s headquarters in Washington.

May 8, 2014
Tyler Hicks Tells The Story Behind His Pulitzer-Winning Nairobi Mall Photos

Tyler Hicks Tells The Story Behind His Pulitzer-Winning Nairobi Mall Photos

The New York Times photojournalist happened to be nearby when Islamist militants launched an attack on shoppers inside an upscale Kenyan mall — he rushed inside and took photos as the event unfolded.

via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2014/04/24/306437432/tyler-hicks-tells-the-story-behind-his-pulitzer-winning-nairobi-mall-photos

“It’s very rare to have access to people in chaotic scenes like this,” Hicks tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross. “You take someone’s picture, it’s this amazing scene and then you never find out what happened to them. … I called her and we had a Skype video talk and it was incredible. She showed me her children, a 2-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl, and told me the whole story: how they laid there for five hours. … They could smell the smoke from the gunpowder and she told me how they got through this.”

April 25, 2014
Tyler Hicks Awarded 2013 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award

Tyler Hicks Awarded 2013 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award

Photojournalist Tyler Hicks of The New York Times is the recipient of the 2013 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for his photographs of a terrorist attack on the upscale Westgate Shopping Center in Nairobi, Kenya last year. The same picture story by Hicks won

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/tyler-hicks-awarded-2013-robert-capa-gold-medal-award

The Capa Gold Medal honors the “best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.” It is awarded annually by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). It was created in honor of the legendary war photographer Robert Capa. The first Capa Gold Medal was awarded in 1955 to Howard Sochurek.

April 24, 2014
Tyler Hicks – Breaking News Photography Pulitzer Prize Winner

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Link: http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2014-Breaking-News-Photography

Awarded to Tyler Hicks of The New York Times for his compelling pictures that showed skill and bravery in documenting the unfolding terrorist attack at Westgate mall in Kenya.

April 14, 2014
Tyler Hicks Photographs the Nairobi Mall Attack

Link: Tyler Hicks Photographs the Nairobi Mall Attack | dvafoto

He was interviewed by James Estrin of the New York Times’ Lens Blog about what he saw and they published a gallery of the terrific and harrowing photographs that Hicks took inside of the Westgate mall yesterday.

September 22, 2013
Tyler Hicks’s Photos of the Conflict in Gaza

Link: Tyler Hicks’s Photos of the Conflict in Gaza – NYTimes.com

Tyler Hicks has spent the last 10 days covering the fighting in Gaza City, and its aftermath. Mr. Hicks, a New York Times staff photographer, spoke with James Estrin by phone on Friday night from Gaza City

November 26, 2012
Photographs and story from Syria by Tyler Hicks

Recounting a Journey Into Syria

Tyler Hicks was on assignment in Syria with the correspondent Anthony Shadid when Mr. Shadid died after interviewing Syrian resistance fighters. Mr. Hicks recounts the journey for Sunday’s paper.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/recounting-a-journey-into-syria/?pagewanted=all

An article in Sunday’s New York Times, written by Tyler Hicks, a staff photographer, recounts the journey he and Anthony Shadid, a Times reporter, made to Syria last month

March 4, 2012
Anthony Shadid, a New York Times Reporter, Dies in Syria

At Work in Syria, Times Correspondent Dies

Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning journalist, was reporting inside Syria when he suffered a fatal asthma attack.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-a-new-york-times-reporter-dies-in-syria.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

Tyler Hicks, a Times photographer who was with Mr. Shadid, carried his body across the border to Turkey.

February 17, 2012
Tyler Hicks: A Decade in Afghanistan

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There are places and times where the politics that drive wars fade and then fade more, becoming abstractions to the people who fight or who are in a fight’s way. And there are moments when politics entirely disappear, and more elemental actions and emotions replace them.

These are the seams and the instants that Tyler Hicks has sought, and repeatedly found, in his decade photographing the latest Afghan war.

October 4, 2011
Tyler Hicks: Amid Famine, Dangers Hinder Aid To Somalia

Amid Famine, Dangers Hinder Aid to Somalia

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/02/world/africa/20110802_SOMALIA_GOBIG.html#1

Southern Somalia is tipping into one of the worst humanitarian disasters to strike Africa in decades, but because of the myriad dangers here, aid organizations are struggling to bring in critically needed supplies and personnel to respond to the famine

August 2, 2011
Libya Releases 4 Times Journalists

Libya Releases 4 Times Journalists

The Libyan government has released four detained New York Times journalists including the photographers Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/libya-releases-4-times-journalists/

The Libyan government has released four detained New York Times journalists — Tyler Hicks, Lynsey Addario, Stephen Farrell and Anthony Shadid

March 21, 2011