Nikki Kahn

Nikki Kahn is a documentary photographer based in Washington, D.C. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 2011.[1]

Nikki Kahn
Born
Guyana
OccupationPhotographer
Spouse(s)Michel du Cille

Biography and education

Nikki Kahn was born in Georgetown, Guyana. In 1996 she graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., with degrees in visual media and art history. She received a Master of Science degree in photography in 2004 from Syracuse University. During her time at Syracuse, she covered AIDS in Guyana.[2] Kahn lived in Washington, D.C., for almost a decade with her husband, Michel du Cille, a three-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning photographer. Du Cille died from a heart attack in 2014 while covering the Ebola crisis in Liberia.[3]

Career

Before joining The Washington Post in 2005, Kahn worked for Knight-Ridder Tribune Photo Service in Washington, D.C., as a photographer and editor. Kahn has covered stories in Afghanistan, Haiti, India, Guyana, Egypt and Tunisia.

Awards and exhibitions

In 2011, Kahn and her colleagues at The Washington Post, Carol Guzy and Ricky Carioti, won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography "for their up-close portrait of grief and desperation after a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti".[4] Kahn has been back to Haiti many times since having shot the photos; she likes to keep in touch with those who touched her life. Kahn states, "I think the amazing thing was the opportunity to go back throughout the year and check up on the people I photographed on the first trip."[5]

Kahn's work has been featured in group exhibitions by the White House News Photographers Association at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.[6]

References
  1. "The Pulitzer Prizes | Works". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  2. Alaska, Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post) Multimedia In rural; Unfulfilled, A. Promise (2013-06-18). "Nikki Kahn". Washington Post. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  3. "Michel du Cille dies at 58; photojournalist documented human struggle". miamiherald. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  4. "The Pulitzer Prizes | Citation". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  5. "She Rocks! Nikki Kahn: Pulitzer Prize Winning Documentary Photographer - Guyanese Girls Rock!". Guyanese Girls Rock!. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  6. "Nikki Kahn featured in Newseum's "The Eyes of History 2012: White House News Photographers Association"". OF NOTE Magazine. Retrieved 2015-11-12.


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