Guyanese Nikki Khan captured Pulitzer images in Haiti
Guyanese-born Nikki Khan, currently a photographer with The Washington Post, is among this year’s winners of the Pulitzer Prize for outstanding photography. Khan and two others from The Washington Post won for images captured in earthquake-ravished Haiti.
Born in Georgetown, Guyana, Khan moved to Washington, D. C., where she studied at an American university and completed her Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in visual media and art history in May 1996. She later attended Syracuse University and completed a Master’s of Science degree in photography in May 2004, with a project on AIDS in Guyana.
She joined the staff at The Washington Post in January 2005 after her previous job as a photographer and editor at Knight- Ridder Tribune Photo Service in Washington, D. C. She has also worked as a staff photographer at the Indianapolis Star and as an intern at the Washington Times, the News Journal in Wilmington, Del., and the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska.
Khan currently lives in Washington, DC, with her husband Michel duCille, a three- time Pulitzer winning photographer.
The Pulitzer Prize honours distinguished examples of breaking news photography in black and white or colour, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album, in print or online, or both.
The prize is valued US$ 10,000. Khan, Carol Guzy and Ricky Cariotic were awarded for their upclose portrait of grief and desperation after a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti, the Pulitzer website reported.
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