Tyler Hicks is a senior photographer for The New York Times.
In 2014, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his coverage of the massacre at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya.
He came to The Times as a contract photographer in Kenya in 1999, photographing news stories in East and West Africa. After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Mr. Hicks went to Afghanistan for The Times and reached Kabul as the Northern Alliance liberated the city from Taliban control. He has returned to Afghanistan yearly and continues to document the conflict there.
As a freelancer for The Times, Mr. Hicks lived with a Kosovar family while covering the Balkan conflict. Two years later, with an end to the conflict, he went to Africa to cover the escalating war between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Mr. Hicks moved to North Carolina, where he was a staff photographer for three years at The Wilmington Star-News. During this time, he photographed personal projects in Haiti, Albania and Kosovo. Moved by the atrocities he saw in Kosovo, Mr. Hicks left his job to cover international news.
In 2001, Mr. Hicks received the ICP Infinity Award for Photojournalism for coverage of Afghanistan, as well as other awards, including World Press and Pictures of the Year and Visa Pour L’image in Perpignan, France. In 2009, Mr. Hicks was part of the Times team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year by Pictures of the Year International for his work in 2006.
On March 16, 2011, Mr. Hicks and three other journalists were taken hostage in Libya, on assignment for The Times covering the revolution. After six days in captivity, Mr. Hicks and his colleagues were released. On Feb. 16, 2012, in Syria, Mr. Hicks was with Anthony Shadid, The Times’s Beirut bureau chief and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, when Mr. Shadid died, apparently from asthma. Mr. Hicks carried Mr. Shadid’s body across the border to Turkey.
Mr. Hicks graduated in 1992 with a B.A. in journalism from Boston University. He was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He now lives in Nairobi, Kenya. But he’s seldom home.
Assaults on Ukraine have been intensifying even as President Trump has threatened new sanctions on Moscow, and now is preparing to meet with Russia’s leader.
By Marc Santora, Maria Varenikova, David Guttenfelder and Tyler Hicks
Towns and troops long accustomed to merciless bombardment are adjusting to an even denser pattern of attacks.
By Tyler Hicks and Maria Varenikova
President Trump has wielded the presidency as an instrument of blunt power, ignoring the howls of outrage from Democrats and daring largely docile Republicans to challenge the limits of his authority.
By Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, David E. Sanger, Hamed Aleaziz, Theodore Schleifer, Charlie Savage, Ana Swanson, Ben Casselman, Erica L. Green, Robin Pogrebin and Shawn McCreesh
Ukraine has adapted strategies and weapons during its fight against Russia. It is now banking on expanding the use of domestically produced drones, even though American arms remain crucial.
By Andrew E. Kramer and Tyler Hicks
President Zelensky of Ukraine said the front lines had seen artillery fire and drone attacks, and that his troops were responding. Russia accused Ukraine of breaking the cease-fire.
By Kim Barker
People in the Ukrainian city struck on Palm Sunday have little hope of a cease-fire.
By Andrew E. Kramer, Maria Varenikova and Tyler Hicks
New York Times photographers covered Covid-19 throughout the world. These pictures, and the moments behind them, stayed with them.
By The New York Times
Drones have changed the war in Ukraine, with soldiers adapting off-the-shelf models and swarming the front lines.
By Marc Santora, Lara Jakes, Andrew E. Kramer, Marco Hernandez and Liubov Sholudko
On the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Tyler Hicks, a war photographer for The New York Times, looks back at five photos he took during the conflict and reflects on how the rules of engagement have changed, affecting what he can document and what the world can witness.
By Tyler Hicks, Christina Thornell, Rebecca Suner, Gaëlle Girbes and David Jouppi
Moscow’s forces are three miles from Dnipropetrovsk, a province they have never invaded. If they cross in, the advance would be a morale blow to Ukraine and complicate any territorial negotiations.
By Constant Méheut, Olha Konovalova and Tyler Hicks