Nikki Kahn
Nikki Kahn is a documentary photographer based in California. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 2011.
Nikki Kahn
- Name
- Nikki Kahn
- Birthplace
- Georgetown, Guyana
- Education
- American University Syracuse University
- Occupation
- Photo Editor/ Photographer
- Spouse
- Michel du Cille
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize
- Born
- 1967 · Georgetown.
- Nationality
- Guyana
- Languages
- English
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Nikki Kahn is a documentary photographer based in California. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 2011.
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Nikki Kahn (born 1967) is a journalist, photographer and photojournalist, a national of Guyana. The journalist was born in Georgetown.
Nikki Kahn was educated at American University and Syracuse University. The journalist worked for The Washington Post. Languages used include English.
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• Name — Nikki Kahn • Birthplace — Georgetown, Guyana • Education — American University Syracuse University • Occupation — Photo Editor/ Photographer • Employer — Sierra Magazine • Spouse — Michel du Cille • Awards — Pulitzer Prize
Biography and education
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. 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.
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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.
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Nikki Kahn is recorded with the occupation photojournalist. Recorded as journalist, photographer and photojournalist.
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Nikki Kahn born at Georgetown.
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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". 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." Kahn's work has been featured in group exhibitions by the White House News Photographers Association at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
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- 1.The Pulitzer Prizes Works. www.pulitzer.org.
- 2.Loughlin, Wendy S. Two Newhouse School alumnae win Pulitzer Prizes for journalism. SU News. April 20, 2011.
- 3.Hannagan, Charley. Two Syracuse University graduates part of newspaper teams that won 2011 Pulitzer Prizes. The Post-Standard. 22 April 2011.
- 4.Alaska, Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post) Multimedia In rural. Nikki Kahn. Washington Post. 2013-06-18.
- 5.Michel du Cille dies at 58; photojournalist documented human struggle. miamiherald.
- 6.The Pulitzer Prizes Citation. www.pulitzer.org.
- 7.She Rocks! Nikki Kahn: Pulitzer Prize Winning Documentary Photographer - Guyanese Girls Rock!. Guyanese Girls Rock!. 19 March 2013.
- 8.Nikki Kahn featured in Newseum's "The Eyes of History 2012: White House News Photographers Association". OF NOTE Magazine. 23 September 2012.
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