Adrees Latif

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Adrees Latif is a Pakistani-American photojournalist and editor with a career spanning over three decades of covering news, sports, conflict, natural disasters and long-term projects. He started his professional career at age 16, freelancing for the weekly newspaper the Suburbia Reporter and the Houston Chronicle. A graduate of the University of Houston, Adrees joined Reuters in 1995 after interning with UPI, the Miami Herald, the Baltimore Sun and working as an intern and staff photographer at the Houston Post. In his 27 years with Reuters, Adrees has been based in Houston, Los Angeles, Bangkok, Islamabad and New York. He is the recipient of the 2008 and 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. As an editor, Latif has curated and edited all seven Pulitzer Prizes which the Reuters Pictures team has been awarded to date. Some of his other accolades include POY.org's Photographer of the Year (Freelance -Agency), POY.org's Community Awareness Award and International Center for Photography's Infinity Award. Adrees is currently based in his hometown of Houston as Enterprise Editor, Reuters Pictures.