Salwan Georges (2022)
Salwan Georges is an Iraqi-American staff photographer for The Washington Post. Before joining the Post, he was a staff photographer at the Detroit Free Press. He studied journalism at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
In 2021, Salwan was named Photographer of The Year, International, by Pictures of the Year and the Northern Short Course in Photojournalism for covering a racial reckoning, an unforgettable election, and a deadly pandemic.
In 2020, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize as part of a staff entry from The Washington Post covering climate change, and was awarded a team finalist for Public Service, covering America’s deadly opioid epidemic.
Salwan’s work on the Middle Eastern communities in the United States has been exhibited at the Arab American National Museum and has been added to a collection at the Library of Congress in D.C.