About

Evelyn Hockstein is a senior staff photographer at Reuters based Washington, DC and past President of the Women Photojournalists of Washington. Evelyn has worked in more than 80 countries for news outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and The Guardian, among others. Evelyn won first prize in the World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International in 2020 and was nominated for the World Press Photo of the Year. In 2022 she was part of the Washington Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for public service and in 2024 she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for coverage of the Israel-Hamas war with her Reuters colleagues. She has previously won awards from POYi, NPPA Best of Photojournalism, and the Days Japan International Photojournalism award for her coverage of women in Darfur. Her work has been exhibited in the US, UK, France, South Africa, Japan, and Kenya. Recent adventures have included climbing in Pakistan for a story about the only female mountain rescue team, and scaling rigs in North Dakota for a project on the oil rich Bakken. Click to see more in Evelyn's archive. Read her recent op-ed published in The Guardian.

For inquiries please email me at evelyn.hockstein@tr.com