2023 LUCIE IMPACT AWARD
Lucie Foundation is pleased to announce that esteemed photographer, Philip Holsinger, will receive the 2025 Lucie Impact Award. The Impact Award is bestowed on a photographer whose image and/or body of work has made a substantial impact during the current year. Philip is receiving this award for his recent work documenting the detainees sent from the U.S. to El Salvador.
LUCIE IMPACT AWARD WINNER 2025
Philip Holsinger
Philip Holsinger is an American photographer and writer specializing in the study of tribal behavior. His often years-long embeds in some of the world’s wildest places results in intimate analogue stories in the tradition of W. Eugene Smith and Peter Beard. He has worked in some of the world’s most volatile regions observing conflict and human peril; including the aftermath of war in Bosnia, the war on drugs in southeast Asia, and the plight of remote peoples such as Nicaragua’s Miskito Indians, once at the heart of the Iran-Contra war. For three years he called Cite Soleil, Haiti home where he lived with and studied the nationwide network of warlord gangs. He has made five extended expeditions with the nomad shepherds of Tusheti in the Republic of Georgia to study clan and tribal systems of the former Soviet satellite countries of the Caucasus region.
Holsinger’s work is primarily displayed in mixed-media, immersive exhibitions (represented by Chauvet Arts Nashville), in original books, and through private contract analysis.
He is the author of four books of photojournalism: The Hands of the Prime Minister(foreword by Sean Penn); Stories I Tell My Daughter; A Tourist of Saints (afterword by Petra Nemcova); and Unembraced; and two collections of poetry: Five Poems for My Mother and Father; Winter Fragments.
Read MorePast Winners of Lucie Impact Awards
Lucie Impact Award Winners 2023
For the first time in its history, the Lucie Impact Award was be given to a group of individual photographers for their coverage in Gaza.
- Dawoud AboAlkas
- Saher Alghorra
- Ashram Amra
- Omar N Ashtawy
- Loay Ayyoub
- Motaz Azaiza
- Mohammed Baba
- Doaa Muhammad Ismail Al-Baz
- MahmouD Bassam
- Mohammed Dahman
- Atia Darwish
- Omar Al-Derawi
- Samar Abu Elouf
- Majdi Fathi
- Mahmud Hams
- Ahmad Hasaballah
- Mustafa Hassona
- Ali Jadallah
- Said Khatib
- Belal Khaled
- Yousef Masoud
- Mohamed Al-Masri
- Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
- Suhail Nassar
- Wissam Nassar
- Saber Nouraldin
- Haitham Nuralden
- Yasser Qudih
- Abdul Hakim Abu Rayash
- Mohammed Jadallah Salem
- Fatima Shbair
- Mohammed Talatene
- Bashar Taleb
- Mohammed Zaanoun
- Abed Zagout
- Ahmed Zakot
- Saeed Muhammad Jaras
Lucie Impact Award Winners 2022
Lynsey Addario receives the 2022 Lucie Impact Award for her coverage in Ukraine, and the image of a family killed while fleeing.
“A Ukrainian Family Killed While Fleeing” New York Times
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.