The heavy rain had been pounding for three days straight. I peered through the raindrops running down my window as streaks of lightning crackled and thunder echoed in the distance above the mountains. News started to trickle in. Record rains. Read more
In January 2024, Pulitzer-prize winning photographer Barbara Davidson traveled from her Los Angeles home to the California-Mexico border town of Jacumba. The month before, U.S. law enforcement had taken into custody a record number of migrants — more than 225,000 … Read more
In August 2014, I was on assignment for TIME to cover the rapid advance of Islamic State fighters from Syria into parts of northern Iraq. Their advance had forced the mass exodus of the local Yazidi population, a religious minority … Read more
I sat next to Faduma in her tent in Baidoa, Somalia, the morning after her three-year-old daughter Hawa died from malnutrition. She caressed and touched two of her remaining children, over and over, in shock. She sang to them, kissed … Read more
One week after the May 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, I attended a vigil for the victims. I felt it was important to arrive early to ask permission from people attending the event who I … Read more
Maciek Nabrdalik, NF ’17, on photographing the Ukrainian refugee crisis at the Polish border: “I’ve been covering this refugee crisis on the Polish border for The New York Times since the very first day of the Russian invasion … Read more
New Yorker cartoonist Christopher Weyant, NF ’16, on capturing the dive into post-pandemic life: “Perhaps the only thing less entertaining than watching someone write a cartoon idea is a cartoonist describing that process to you. It’s not pretty. Read more
Bethany Mollenkof, photojournalist and 2021 Nieman Visiting Fellow, on photographing the devastation the coronavirus is bringing to Southern and rural Black communities: “When I am creating portraits of someone, I like to ask them to take me to … Read more
Maciek Nabrdalik, photojournalist and 2017 Nieman Fellow, on photographing the coronavirus pandemic in Poland: “Since March 2020, we’ve been surrounded by a loud noise of political discussions and social response to the safety measures. This assignment took me … Read more
Photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind, a 2016 Nieman Fellow, on photographing the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict: “I visited the emergency department of Stepanakert hospital several times during the last days of the war in Nagorno Karabakh. I spent hours waiting … Read more
