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Spouse Michel duCille (m. ?–2014) Awards Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography Nominations News & Documentary Emmy Award for New Approaches: Documentaries Similar Ricky Carioti, Carol Guzy, Michel duCille, Michael Williamson, Neely Tucker | ||
Nikki Kahn is a photojournalist based in Washington, D.C. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 2011.
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Biography & 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’s of Science Degree in photography in 2004 from Syracuse University. During her time at Syracuse, she covered AIDS in Guyana. Kahn lived in Washington DC for almost a decade with her husband, Michel duCille, a three-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning photographer. Du cille died from a heart attack in 2014 while covering the Ebola crisis in Liberia.
Career
Before joining the Washington Post in 2005, Kahn worked for Knight-Ridder Tribune Photo Service in Washington D.C. as a lead photographer and editor. Kahn has covered stories in Afghanistan, Haiti, India, Guyana, Egypt, and Tunisia.
Awards & 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." 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.