Education
Boston University.
Photographer photojournalist war photographer
Boston University.
Based in Kenya, he typically covers foreign affairs, with an emphasis in recent years on conflict and war, but also works at times on assignments across the United States. Hicks was named the newspaper photographer of the year by the Missouri School of Journalism"s Pictures of the Year International contest in 2007. Hicks was previously a freelance photographer based in Africa and the Balkans, and worked for newspapers in North Carolina and Ohio.
He has worked in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Iraq, Russia, Bosnia, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, Chechnya and many countries in Africa, including South Sudan during the 2011 referendum.
He graduated from Staples High School in 1988, and went on to Boston University"s College of Communication, where he earned a degree in Journalism in 1992. He returned to Boston University in 2011 to deliver the commencement address at the College of Communication.
Hicks was reported missing on March 16, 2011, while covering the revolution in Libya for The New York Times. The New York Times reported on March 18, 2011 that Libya had agreed to free Hicks, Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario and Stephen Farrell.
Hicks and his three colleagues were released on March 21, 2011, six days after being captured by pro-Qaddafi forces.
On February 16, 2012, Anthony Shadid suffered a fatal asthma attack while covering civil unrest in Syria with Hicks. Hicks assisted in carrying Shadid"s body across the border into Turkey. Tyler Hicks was present during the deadly attack by terrorists on the Westgate shopping center in Nairobi on September 21, 2013.
He was close to the scene taking pictures and followed police as they searched for militants.
He shared the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting with a team from The New York Times recognized for coverage of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he works frequently in the field, focusing on the ground-level experience. Hicks received a George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting in 2011. Foreign this work he was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.
