
Lucie Technical Awards
The Lucie Technical Awards aim to honor the large and small companies, as well as the individuals, who have advanced the photographic industry in a given year. All inclusive, these awards intend to encompass such things as cameras, lenses, lighting, and accessories, to software, storage and more.
The Lucie Technical Awards is a program of the Lucie Foundation, and sister program of The Lucie Awards.
The 8th annual 2023 Lucie Technical Awards Winners and Finalists Announced!


Photo by Sam Taylor Johnson
LUCIE IMPACT AWARD WINNER 2022
LYNSEY ADDARIO
Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist, who has been covering conflict, humanitarian crises, and women’s issues around the Middle East and Africa on assignment for The New York Times and National Geographic for more than two decades. Since September 11, 2001, Addario has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Darfur, South Sudan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen, Syria, and ongoing war in Ukraine.
Starting out as a menswear design major, he attended fashion classes at The Fashion Institute of Technology, where he discovered that he enjoyed taking pictures of the clothing more than designing the clothes. In 2013, Malike joined a nonprofit after-school program called NYC SALT, where he discovered photography is his true passion and path.
Website: lynseyaddario.com
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FABIO BUCCIARELLI
Fabio Bucciarelli (Italy, 1980) is a photographer, journalist and author known for his documentation of conflicts and humanitarian consequences of war. He has spent the last decade covering the world’s major events and creating images which reflect his commitment and empathy with the story, providing information focused on human rights.
Before becoming a photographer, in 2006 Bucciarelli received the MS in Telecommunication Engineering from Politecnico of Turin. He then went to Barcelona to work as an engineer until 2009 when he started to devote himself to photography.
Website: fabiobucciarelli.com
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Photo by Mike Kambero

Photo by Bjorn Wallander
LUCIE EMERGING IMPACT AWARD
MALIKE SIDIBE
Although his name spells almost exactly the same as the well known Malian photographer Malick Sidibe, 23 year-old Malike Sidibe offers a surrealistic dreamlike take on image-making. At his core, Malike is an artist. He was born in Man, Cote d’Ivoire and moved to Guinea when he was 3 years old. He Fell in love with photography at age 12 when his father gave him his first camera. He moved to NYC from Guinea in the summer of 2010 at the age of 13.
Starting out as a menswear design major, he attended fashion classes at The Fashion Institute of Technology, where he discovered that he enjoyed taking pictures of the clothing more than designing the clothes. In 2013, Malike joined a nonprofit after-school program called NYC SALT, where he discovered photography is his true passion and path.
Website: malikesidibe.com
Read MoreConversation moderated by Andrew Katz
As Deputy Director of Photography at TIME, Andrew co-manages a team of photo editors; assign photographers across the world; and produces covers, photo essays and visual-driven features. Since joining TIME’s photo department in 2015, he has collaborated with photojournalists on (or above) all seven continents and produced portraits with more than a dozen presidents and prime ministers, the U.N. Secretary-General, the Dalai Lama and one Crown Prince.
On January 28th at 5PM EST there was a live Zoom Presentation featuring The Lucie Impact Award Honorees Fabio Bucciarelli and Malike Sidibe in conversation. This conversation will be moderated by, Andrew Katz, Deputy Director of Photography, TIME.
If you missed the live conversation, please click here to watch the recorded conversation and presentation.

Deputy Director of Photography, TIME
Past Winners of Lucie Impact Awards
Lucie Impact Award Winners 2021
Paul Ratje receives the 2021 Lucie Impact Award for his coverage of Haitian migrants being chased down by U.S. Border Patrol agents on the banks of the Rio Grande in Del Rio, Texas.
“Haitian Migrants in Del Río“ for Agence France-Presse
Lucie Impact Award Winners 2020
Fabio Bucciarelli receives The Lucie Professional Impact Award for his coverage of Covid-19, First Wave Coverage, Italy.
New York Times, “We Take the Dead From Morning Till Night”
Malike Sidibe receives the Lucie Emerging Impact Award for his photography of the George Floyd’s protests in New York City.
Time Magazine, “I Couldn’t Just Sit and Watch.’ Photographing New York City’s George Floyd Protests”
Lucie Impact Award Winners 2019
In 2019 Tyler Hicks received the Lucie Impact award for the Image of Amal Hussain, a young Yemeni girl who died at the age of 7. Hicks, while working for the NY Times on a story of the Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War, took that image, which drew international attention to the country’s plight. These images make a difference as they bring awareness to issues and influence policies.
Lucie Impact Award Winners 2018
In 2018 the Lucie Impact Award honored John Moore for his work on immigration. His powerful image on the cover of Time Magazine, of a Honduran child clinging to her mother’s legs, humanized the plight of separated families seeking asylum at our borders. Although family separation had been going on for some time, this seminal image mobilized the nation.