Salwan Georges

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Salwan Georges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist for The Washington Post. In 2020, Georges was awarded a Pulitzer Prize with his team for covering climate change around the world. In 2023, he was named Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association for his work covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the race to save Black Rhinos in Africa, and the fentanyl crisis in the U.S. and Mexico. And was awarded with the title Photo of the Year by Siena Awards for his work in Ukraine. In 2021, Georges was named Photographer of the Year by Pictures of the Year International for covering a racial reckoning in Minneapolis, an unforgettable U.S. national election, and a deadly pandemic. His ongoing work on Middle Eastern communities in the United States has been added to a collection at the Library of Congress in D.C.