Biography

Josh Haner

 

Josh Haner is a Staff Photographer and the Senior Editor for Photo Technology at The New York Times.

 

In 2014, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for a photo essay documenting the recovery of a Boston Marathon bombing victim.

 

Before joining The Times in 2006, Mr. Haner was an assistant photo editor at Fortune Magazine. His photography has appeared in numerous publications including Newsweek, Time, Fortune and Rolling Stone. Mr. Haner's video on Jeff Bauman's recovery after the Boston Marathon bombing won first place in the National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism and second place in the Pictures of the Year International contest. He was recently selected as "One to Watch" in the September 2012 issue of American Photo magazine. Previously, he was named one of Photo District News's 2010 Industry Players for his role as one of the founders and editors of The Times's Lens blog.

 

He graduated from Stanford University in 2002, with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and a B.A. in Studio Art. As a student, Mr. Haner's photography received funding from the Beagle 2 Fellowship, the Pritzker Scholarship and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities office. His documentary project on generational differences in a southern Kenyan Masai village earned him the Robert M. Golden medal for the Creative Arts - Stanford's highest honor for a research project in the Arts. Mr. Haner currently lives in Brooklyn and is an amateur baseball player in the Pancho Coimbre league in Manhattan.

 

 
   
   
 
 
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