Todd Heisler is a staff photographer for The New York Times and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He covers everything from politics and breaking news to daily life in New York City and beyond, always aiming to take a deeper look at issues and communities.
New York City has spent over $6 billion since 2022 to shelter people arriving from the US-Mexico border. More than 225,000 migrants have lived in shelters that became a tapestry of cultures, blending into the city while living mostly out of sight. But inside the shelters, life has flourished.
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The service industry jobs that keep New York City’s heart ticking took a huge hit during the pandemic, leaving many people struggling. Meet some of those workers.
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A Persisting Witness hopes to show the vital role photojournalists play in securing our access to stories that might otherwise go unnoticed or unreported, and often at great personal risk.
Testament is a collection of photographs and writing by late photojournalist Chris Hondros spanning over a decade of coverage from most of the world’s conflicts since the late 1990s.
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“A Way Home” brings to light the ways in which communities across the globe define ‘home’. Through a compassionate and telling lens, these photojournalists examine the effects that migration, conflict, political strife and humanitarian crises inflict on individuals’ concepts of home.
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From the rise of Hugo Chávez’s socialist revolution to its collapse into the worst economic crisis in the history of Venezuela, photojournalist Meridith Kohut has chronicled the plight of Venezuelans for the past decade.
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This exhibit reflects on the work of photojournalists who bring to light shared human experiences. Through the lens of family, we’ve asked the photographers to share images that reflect the concept of family from their work in documenting some of the most important news stories of our times.
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