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, founded in 2003 by Hossein Farmani. The Lucie Awards is an annual gala ceremony presented by the Lucie Foundation (a 501 (c)3 non-profit charitable organization), honoring photographers and their achievements. The Lucies bring together photographers from all over the world and pay tribute to their colleagues. Every year, the Advisory Board nominates individuals for their contributions to photography across a variety of categories, and once the nominations are tallied, they are pre-announced months before the Lucies. In addition to honoring photographers, the Lucie Awards also showcase the finalists and winners of the

International Photography Awards The International Photography Awards are a group of awards for professional, non-professional and student photographers on a global scale which are awarded annually at the Lucie Awards gala. The winners of the main categories are invited to attend ...

(Lucie Foundation's sister-effort) annual photography competition, presenting over $22,500 in cash prizes and four distinct titles: The International Photographer of the Year (given to a professional), The Discovery of the Year (awarded to a non-professional), The Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year (awarded to either a professional or non-professional) and the Moving Image Photographer of the Year (awarded to either a professional or non-professional). The Lucie Awards also present statues to photographers in six different categories, entitled the Support Category Awards. Those categories acknowledge those integral to crafting an image. They are Book Publisher of the Year, Print Advertising Campaign of the Year, Fashion Layout of the Year, Picture Editor of the Year, Curator/Exhibition of the Year and Photography Magazine of the Year. In the week leading up to the Lucie Awards, there are exhibitions and artist talks in New York City, including the annual International Photography Awards “Best of Show”, which shows 45 winning images from each calendar year's competition, selected by a different curator each year.

History

In its 2003 inaugural year, the ceremony was held in Los Angeles, and then moved to New York City, where it has been held at the American Airlines Theatre,

Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 ...

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Recipients

2003

Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French artist and Humanist photography, humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 135 film, 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street ...

– 2003 Lifetime Achievement *Robert Evans – 2003 Visionary Award * Phil Borges – 2003 Humanitarian Award *

Ruth Bernhard Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006) was a German-born American photographer.Sabin Russell,Ruth Bernhard: Photographer of nudes and still lifes (obituary), ''San Francisco Chronicle,'' December 19, 2006. Early life and educatio ...

– 2003 Achievement in Fine Art * William Claxton – 2003 Achievement in Music *

Mary Ellen Mark Mary Ellen Mark (March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015) was an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were "away from mainstream society and t ...

– 2003 Achievement in Documentary. *

Steve McCurry Steve McCurry (born April 23, 1950) is an American photographer, freelancer, and photojournalist. His photo ''Afghan Girl'', of a girl with piercing green eyes, has appeared on the cover of ''National Geographic'' several times. McCurry has photo ...

– 2003 Achievement in Photojournalism *

Douglas Kirkland Douglas Morley Kirkland (August 16, 1934 – October 2, 2022) was a Canadian-born American photographer. He was noted for his photographs of celebrities, especially the ones he took of Marilyn Monroe several months before her death. Early life ...

– 2003 Achievement in Entertainment *

Melvin Sokolsky Melvin Sokolsky (October 9, 1933 – August 29, 2022) was an American photographer and film director. Early life Born in New York City in 1933, Sokolsky was raised on the Lower East Side. He had no formal training in photography, but started to u ...

– 2003 Achievement in Fashion *Tim Street-Porter – 2003 Achievement in Architecture *

Phil Stern Philip Stern (September 3, 1919 – December 13, 2014), also known as Snapdragon, was an American photographer noted for his iconic portraits of Hollywood stars, as well as his war photography while serving as a U.S. Army Ranger with " Darby's Ra ...

– 2003 Achievement in Still for Motion Pictures *

Annie Leibovitz Anna-Lou Leibovitz ( ; born October 2, 1949) is an American Portrait photography, portrait photographer best known for her portraits, particularly of celebrities, which often feature subjects in intimate settings and poses. Leibovitz's Polaroid ...

– 2003 Women in Photography Award (presented by Women in Photography International) * Gene Trindl – 2003 Achievement in Portraiture *RJ Muna – 2003 Achievement in Advertising

2004

Gordon Parks Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly ...

– 2004 Lifetime Achievement * Sebastiao Salgado – 2004 Humanitarian Award *

Cornell Capa Cornell Capa (; born Kornél Friedmann; April 10, 1918 – May 23, 2008) was a Hungarian-American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, photo curator, and the younger brother of photo-journalist and war photographer Robert Capa. Graduating fr ...

– 2004 Visionary Award *

Arthur Leipzig Arthur Leipzig (October 25, 1918 – December 5, 2014) was an American photographer who specialized in street photography and was known for his photographs of New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous c ...

– 2004 Achievement in Fine Art *

James Nachtwey James Nachtwey (born March 14, 1948) is an American photojournalist and war photographer. He has been awarded the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal five times and two World Press Photo awards. In 2003, Nachtwey was injured in a gren ...

– 2004 Achievement in Photojournalism *

Sylvia Plachy Sylvia Plachy (born 24 May 1943) is a Hungarian-American photographer. Plachy's work has been featured in many New York City magazines and newspapers and she "was an influential staff photographer for ''The Village Voice''." Plachy's first book, ...

– 2004 Women in Photography Award (presented by Women In Photography International) *

Julius Shulman Julius Shulman (October 10, 1910 – July 15, 2009) was an American architectural photographer best known for his photograph " Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, 1960. Pierre Koenig, Architect." The house is also known as the Stahl House. Shulm ...

– 2004 Achievement in Architecture * Jim Marshall – 2004 Achievement in Music * Bruce Davidson – 2004 Achievement in Documentary *

Bert Stern Bertram Stern (October 3, 1929 – June 26, 2013) was an American commercial photographer. Biography Stern was the son of Jewish immigrants and grew up in Brooklyn. His father worked as a children's portrait photographer. After dropping out of h ...

– 2004 Achievement in Entertainment *

Lillian Bassman Lillian Bassman (June 15, 1917 – February 13, 2012) was an American photographer and painter. Early life and background Her parents were Jewish intellectuals who emigrated to the United States from Ukraine (then in Russia) in 1905 and settled i ...

– 2004 Achievement in Fashion *

Arnold Newman Arnold Abner Newman (March 3, 1918 – June 6, 2006) was an American photographer, noted for his "environmental portraits" of artists and politicians. He was also known for his carefully composed abstract still life images. In 2006, he was induc ...

– 2004 Achievement in Portraiture *

Jay Maisel Jay Maisel (born January 18, 1931) is an American photographer. His awards include the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Media Photographers,

– 2004 Achievement in Advertising *

Walter Iooss Walter Iooss Jr. ( ; born September 15, 1943) is an American photographer noted for his images of athletes, including Michael Jordan, Kelly Slater, Tiger Woods, Scottie Pippen, and Muhammad Ali. He has been called "the poet laureate of sports." ...

– 2004 Achievement in Sports *

Bob Willoughby Robert Hanley "Bob" Willoughby (June 30, 1927 – 18 December 2009) was an American photographer. ''Popular Photography'' called him "The man who virtually invented the photojournalistic motion picture still." Early life and education Willo ...

– 2004 Achievement in Still for Motion Pictures

2005

* William Klein – 2005 Lifetime Achievement *

Harry Benson Harry James Benson CBE (born 2 December 1929) is a Scottish photographer. His photographs of celebrities have been published in magazines. He has published several books and won a number of prominent awards. Life and work Benson was born in G ...

– 2005 Achievement in Portraiture *

Larry Clark Lawrence Donald Clark (born January 19, 1943) is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for his controversial teen film '' Kids'' (1995) and his photography book ''Tulsa'' (1971). His work focuses pri ...

– 2005 Achievement in Documentary *

Lucien Clergue Lucien Clergue (; 14 August 1934 – 15 November 2014) was a French photographer. He was Chairman of the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris for 2013. Biography Lucien Clergue was born in Arles, France. At the age of 7 he began learning to play the ...

– 2005 Achievement in Fine Art *

Hiro Hiro may refer to: People * Hiro (given name), includes lists of people with the given name * Hiro (photographer) (1930–2021), Japanese-born American photographer * Hiro (singer) (born 1991), French singer * Hiroko Shimabukuro (born 1984), Japa ...

– 2005 Achievement in Advertising *

Antonín Kratochvíl Antonín Kratochvíl (also written Antonin Kratochvil; born 12 April 1947) is a Czech-born American photojournalist. He is a founding member of VII Photo Agency. Life and work Kratochvíl was born in 1947 in Lovosice, Czechoslovakia. He gained ...

– 2005 Achievement in Photojournalism *

Peter Lindbergh Peter Lindbergh (born Peter Brodbeck; 23 November 1944 – 3 September 2019) was a German fashion photographer and film director. He had studied arts in Berlin and Krefeld, and exhibited his works before graduation. In 1971, he turned to phot ...

– 2005 Achievement in Fashion *

Ozzie Sweet Ozzie Sweet (Oscar Cowan Corbo; September 10, 1918 in Stamford, Connecticut – February 20, 2013 in York Harbor, Maine) was a sports photographer whose best work in photography was in creating an image, not capturing one. According to the Ne ...

– 2005 Achievement in Sports *

Zana Briski Zana Briski (born 25 October 1966) is a British photographer and filmmaker, best known for '' Born into Brothels'', the 2004 Oscar winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, which she directed. She founded Kids with Cameras, a non ...

– 2005 Humanitarian Award

2006

David Bailey David Royston Bailey (born 2 January 1938) is an English photographer and director, most widely known for his fashion photography and portraiture, and role in shaping the image of the Swinging Sixties. Bailey has also directed several televisio ...

– 2006 Achievement in Fashion *

Eikoh Hosoe was a Japanese photographer and filmmaker who emerged in the experimental arts movement of post-World War II Japan. Hosoe is best known for his dark, high contrast, black and white photographs of human bodies. His images are often psychologicall ...

– 2006 Visionary Award *

Neil Leifer Neil Leifer (born December 28, 1942) is an American sports photographer and filmmaker known mainly for his work with ''Sports Illustrated'' and ''Time (magazine), Time''. His photograph of Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston, taken on May 25, ...

– 2006 Achievement in Sports *

Roger Mayne Roger Mayne (5 May 1929 – 7 June 2014) was an English photographer, best known for his documentation of the children of Southam Street, London. Life and work Born in Cambridge, Mayne studied Chemistry at Balliol College, Oxford University. Her ...

– 2006 Achievement in Documentary *

Duane Michals Duane Michals ( "Michaels"; born February 18, 1932) is an American photographer. Michals's work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy. Education and career Michals's interest in ar ...

– 2006 Achievement in Portraiture *

Sarah Moon Sarah Moon HonFRPS (born Marielle Warin; 1941) is a French photographer. Initially a model, she turned to fashion photography in the 1970s. Since 1985, she has concentrated on gallery and film work. Biography Marielle Warin was born in Vernon, ...

– 2006 Achievement in Fine Art *

Marc Riboud Marc Riboud (; 24 June 1923 – 30 August 2016) was a French photographer, best known for his extensive reports on the Far East: ''The Three Banners of China'', ''Face of North Vietnam'', ''Visions of China'', and ''In China''. Early life and e ...

– 2006 Achievement in Photojournalism *

Willy Ronis Willy Ronis (; 14 August 191012 September 2009) was a French photographer. His best-known work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence. Life and work Ronis was born in Paris to Jewish immigrants. His father, Emmanuel Ronis, was from Odessa, a ...

– 2006 Lifetime Achievement * Albert Watson – 2006 Achievement in Advertising

2007

Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwitt (born Elio Romano Erwitz, July 26, 1928 – November 29, 2023) was a French-born American advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid photos of ironic and absurd situations within everyday setti ...

– 2007 Lifetime Achievement *

Ralph Gibson Ralph Gibson (born January 16, 1939) is an American art photographer best known for his photographic books. His images often incorporate fragments with erotic and mysterious undertones, building narrative meaning through contextualization and ...

– 2007 Achievement in Fine Art *

Philip Jones Griffiths Philip Jones Griffiths (18 February 1936 – 19 March 2008) was a Welsh photojournalist known for his coverage of the Vietnam War. Biography Jones Griffiths was born in Rhuddlan in Denbighshire, North Wales, to Joseph Griffiths, who superv ...

– 2007 Achievement in Photojournalism *

Kenro Izu is a Japanese-born photographer based in the United States. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. He is the founder of children's charity Friends Without a Border, for which he has received two awards. He h ...

– 2007 Visionary Award *

Heinz Kluetmeier Heinz Kluetmeier (October 1, 1942 – January 14, 2025) was a sports photographer for ''Sports Illustrated''. He covered every Olympic Games for the magazine since the 1972 Munich games except one. Kluetmeier was best known for his photo at the ...

– 2007 Achievement in Sports *

Eugene Richards Eugene Richards (born 1944) is an American documentary photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. He has published many books of photography and has been a member of Magnum Photos and of VII Photo Agency. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. ...

– 2007 Achievement in Documentary *

Lord Snowdon Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (7 March 1930 – 13 January 2017) was a British photographer. He is best known internationally for his portraits of world notables, many of them published in ''Vogue (magazine), Vogu ...

– 2007 Achievement in Portraiture * Deborah Turbeville – 2007 Achievement in Fashion *

Howard Zieff Howard Burton Zieff (October 21, 1927 – February 22, 2009) (pronounced Zeef) was an American director, television commercial director, and advertising photographer. Early life Zieff was born to Jewish parents in Chicago, Illinois, then mo ...

– 2007 Achievement in Advertising *

Magnum Photos Magnum Photos is an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices in Paris, New York City, London and Tokyo. It was founded in 1947 in Paris by photographers Robert Capa, David Seymour (photographer), Davi ...

(established 1957) – 2007 Spotlight Award

2008

Gianni Berengo Gardin Gianni Berengo Gardin (born 1930) is an Italian photographer who has concentrated on reportage and editorial work, but whose career as a photographer has encompassed book illustration and advertising. "Undoubtedly the most important photographer ...

– 2008 Lifetime Achievement *

Richard Misrach Richard Misrach (born 1949) is an American photographer. He has photographed the deserts of the American West, and pursued projects that document the changes in the natural environment that have been wrought by various man-made factors such as u ...

– 2008 Achievement in Fine Art *

Susan Meiselas Susan Meiselas (born June 21, 1948) is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and been a full member since 1980. Currently she is the President of the Magnum Foundation. She is best known for ...

– 2008 Achievement in Photojournalism *Sara Terry and The Aftermath Project – 2008 Humanitarian Award *John Iacono – 2008 Achievement in Sports *

Josef Koudelka Josef Koudelka (born 10 January 1938) is a Czech-French photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and has won awards such as the Prix Nadar (1978), a Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), a Grand Prix Henri Cartier-Bresson (1991) ...

– 2008 Achievement in Documentary *

Herman Leonard Herman Leonard (March 6, 1923, in Allentown, Pennsylvania – August 14, 2010, in Los Angeles, California) was an American photographer known for his unique images of jazz icons. Early life and education Leonard was born in Allentown, Pennsylv ...

– 2008 Achievement in Portraiture *

Patrick Demarchelier Patrick Demarchelier (; 21 August 1943 – 31 March 2022) was a French fashion photographer. Early life and education Born near Paris in 1943 to a modest family, Demarchelier spent his childhood in Le Havre, Normandy, with his mother and fo ...

– 2008 Achievement in Fashion *

Erwin Olaf Erwin Olaf Springveld (2 July 1959 – 20 September 2023), professionally known as Erwin Olaf, was a Dutch photographer from Hilversum. ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine described his work as straddling "the worlds of commercial, art and fashio ...

– 2008 Achievement in Advertising * Visa pour l'image (established 1988) – 2008 Spotlight Award

2009

Gilles Peress Gilles Peress (born December 29, 1946) is a French photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. Peress began working with photography in 1970, having previously studied political science and philosophy in Paris. One of Peress' first projects exa ...

– 2009 Achievement in Photojournalism *

Marvin Newman Marvin Elliott Newman (December 5, 1927 – September 13, 2023) was an American artist and photographer. Early life and education Marvin Elliott Newman was born in The Bronx "to a family of Russian Jews who'd been in the bakery business for fou ...

– 2009 Achievement in Sports *

Ara Guler Ara may refer to: Biology * ''Ara'' (bird), a genus of parrots * Ara (fish) (''Niphon spinosus''), a species of fish * L-arabinose operon, also known as ara Places * Ara (mountain), a mountain in Armenia * Ara, Armenia, a village in Armenia ...

– 2009 Lifetime Achievement *

Jean-Paul Goude Jean-Paul Goude (born in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis 8 December 1938) is a French graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, advertising film director and event designer. He worked as art director at ''Esquire (magazine), Esquire'' magazine i ...

– 2009 Achievement in Fashion *

Mark Seliger Mark Alan Seliger (born May 23, 1959) is an American photographer noted for his portraiture. From 1992 to 2002, he was Chief Photographer for ''Rolling Stone'', during which time he shot over 188 covers for the magazine. From 2002 to 2012 he was u ...

– 2009 Achievement in Portraiture *

Reza Reza () is the Persian variant of the Arabic name Rida, which literally means "the fact of being pleased or contented; contentment, approval". It is one of the most widely used names in Iran. According to Annemarie Schimmel, "riḍā is closely ...

– 2009 Achievement in Documentary * W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund (established 1979) – 2009 Spotlight Award

2010

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– 2010 Achievement in Portraiture * Howard Bingham – 2010 Achievement in Photojournalism * James Drake – 2010 Achievement in Sports *

David Goldblatt David Goldblatt HonFRPS (29 November 1930 – 25 June 2018) was a South African documentary Photographer noted for his dedicated portrayal of the South African peoples within the political landscape of the apartheid era.Weinberg, Paul.David ...

– 2010 Lifetime Achievement *

Graciela Iturbide Graciela Iturbide (born May 16, 1942) is a Mexican photographer. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in many major museum collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The J. Paul Getty Museum. Biograp ...

– 2010 Achievement in Fine Art *

Michael Nyman Michael Laurence Nyman, Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, libretto, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film soundtrack, scores (many written during his lengthy ...

– 2010 The Double Exposure Award *Lee Tanner – 2010 Achievement in Documentary *The Eddie Adams Workshop – 2010 Visionary Award *

Center for Photography at Woodstock The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) is a not-for-profit arts organization in Kingston, New York that was founded in 1977 with a two-fold mission: to support artists working in photography and related media; and to engage audiences throug ...

– 2010 Spotlight Award

2011

Dawoud Bey Dawoud Bey (born David Edward Smikle; November 25, 1953) is an American photographer, artist and educator known for his large-scale art photography and street photography portraits, including American adolescents in relation to their community ...

– 2011 Achievement in Portraiture *

Bill Eppridge William E. Eppridge (March 20, 1938 − October 3, 2013) was an American photographer and photojournalist for ''Life'' magazine, known for his photography of the dying Robert F. Kennedy, taken in June 1968. Eppridge was born in Buenos Aires, A ...

– 2011 Achievement in Photojournalism *

Rich Clarkson Rich Clarkson (born August 11, 1932) is a Denver, Colorado based photographer who has a long history covering American sports. Rich owns a production company, Clarkson Creative, that specializes in photography, video production, design, and book pu ...

– 2011 Achievement in Sports *

Nobuyoshi Araki , professionally known by the mononym , is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist. Known primarily for photography that blends eroticism and bondage in a fine art context, he has published over 500 books. Early life and education Araki ...

– 2011 Achievement in Fine Art *

Eli Reed Ellis (Eli) Reed (born 1946) is an American photographer and photojournalist. Reed was the first full-time black photographer at Magnum Agency and is the author of several books, including ''Beirut: City of Regrets'' and ''Black In America''. E ...

– 2011 Achievement in Documentary *Nancy McGirr – 2011 Humanitarian Award *The

International Center of Photography The International Center of Photography (ICP) is a photography museum and school at 84 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. ICP's photographic collection, reading room, and archives are at Mana Contemporary in Jer ...

– 2011 Spotlight Award

2012

Greg Gorman Greg Gorman is an American photographer. Education Gorman attended the University of Kansas with a major in Photojournalism and completed his studies at the University of Southern California, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Cine ...

– 2012 Achievement in Portraiture * David Burnett – 2012 Achievement in Photojournalism *John Biever – 2012 Achievement in Sports *

Joel Meyerowitz Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, 1938) is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the ide ...

– 2012 Lifetime Achievement *

Tod Papageorge Tod Papageorge (born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire United States, 1940) is an American photographer whose career began in the New York City street photography movement of the 1960s. He is the recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships and two NEA Vis ...

– 2012 Achievement in Documentary *

Arthur Tress Arthur Tress (born November 24, 1940) is an American photographer. He is known for his staged surrealism and exposition of the human body. Early life and education Tress comes from a Jewish background; his parents immigrated from Europe. He was ...

– 2012 Achievement in Fine Art *

Jessica Lange Jessica Phyllis Lange (; born April 20, 1949) is an American actress. With a career spanning over five decades, she is known for her roles Jessica Lange on screen and stage, on stage and screen. She has received List of awards and nominati ...

– 2012 Double Exposure Award *

Brigitte Lacombe Brigitte Lacombe (born December 23, 1950, in Alès, France) is an American photographer based in New York City. In May 2009, she published a collection "Lacombe anima/persona" with her photographs covering her work from 1975 to 2008. Her work has b ...

– 2012 Achievement in Travel and Portraiture

2013

* Li Zhensheng – 2013 Achievement in Documentary *

Victor Skrebneski Victor Paul Skrebneski (December 17, 1929 – April 4, 2020) was an American photographer born in Chicago to parents of Polish and Russian heritage. He was educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1943 and attended the Illinois I ...

– 2013 Achievement in Fashion * John H. White – 2013 Achievement in Photojournalism *

Lisa Kristine Lisa Kristine (born September 2, 1965) is an American humanitarian photographer, activist, and speaker. Her photography has documented indigenous cultures and social causes, such as modern slavery, in more than 100 countries. Through her work, ...

– 2013 Humanitarian Award *

Benedikt Taschen Benedikt Taschen (born 10 February 1961) is a German publisher and contemporary art collector. He is the founder and managing director of the publishing house Taschen, one of the most successful international publishers, with illustrated publ ...

– 2013 Visionary Award *

Harper's Bazaar ''Harper's Bazaar'' (stylized as ''Harper's BAZAAR'') is an American monthly women's fashion magazine. Bazaar has been published in New York City since November 2, 1867, originally as a weekly publication entitled ''Harper's Bazar''."Corporat ...

(for article of Hendrik Kerstens's fashion photographs) - 2013 Fashion Layout of the Year

2014

Carrie Mae Weems Carrie Mae Weems (born April 20, 1953) is an American artist working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and Video installation, installation video, and is best known for her photography. She achieved prominence through her early 1990s photog ...

– 2014 Achievement in Fine Arts *

Martin Parr Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in p ...

– 2014 Achievement in Documentary *

Jane Bown Jane Hope Bown CBE (13 March 1925 – 21 December 2014) was an English photographer who worked for ''The Observer'' newspaper from 1949. Her portraits, primarily photographed in black and white and using available light, received widespread c ...

– 2014 Lifetime Achievement *

Nick Ut Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut (born March 29, 1951), is a Vietnamese-American photographer who worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles. He won both the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the 1973 World ...

– 2014 Achievement in Photojournalism *

Nan Goldin Nancy Goldin (born 1953) is an American photographer and activist. Her work explores in snapshot-style the emotions of the individual, in intimate relationships, and the Bohemian style, bohemian LGBT subcultural communities, especially dealing w ...

– 2014 Achievement in Portraiture *

Pedro Meyer Pedro Meyer (born October 6, 1935, in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish photographer based in Mexico. He is one of the pioneers of the digital revolution in contemporary photography. He was the founder and president of the ''Consejo Mexicano de Fotogr ...

– 2014 Visionary Award

2015

George Tice George Andrew Tice (October 13, 1938 – January 16, 2025) was an American photographer. His work depicts a broad range of American life, landscape, and urban environment, mostly photographed in his native New Jersey. He lived all his life in N ...

– 2015 Lifetime Achievement *

Danny Lyon Danny Lyon (born March 16, 1942) is an American photographer and filmmaker. All of Lyon's publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism, meaning that the photographer has become immersed in, and is a participant of, the document ...

– 2015 Achievement in Documentary *

Stephanie Sinclair Stephanie Sinclair (born 1973) is an American photojournalist who focuses on gender and human-rights issues such as child marriage and self-immolation. Her work has been included in ''The New York Times'', ''Time Magazine'' and ''National Geogr ...

– 2015 Humanitarian Award *

Jerry Uelsmann Jerry Norman Uelsmann (June 11, 1934 – April 4, 2022) was an American photographer. As an emerging artist in the 1960s, Jerry Uelsmann received international recognition for surreal, enigmatic photographs (photomontages) made with his uniqu ...

– 2015 Achievement in Fine Arts *

David Hume Kennerly David Hume Kennerly (born March 9, 1947) is an American photographer. He won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his portfolio of photographs of the Vietnam War, Cambodia, East Pakistani refugees near Calcutta, and the Ali-Fraz ...

– 2015 Achievement in Photojournalism * Roxanne Lowit – 2015 Achievement in Fashion *

Henry Diltz Henry Stanford Diltz (born September 6, 1938, in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American folk musician and photographer who has been active since the 1960s. Career Photography Among the bands Diltz played with was the Modern Folk Quartet. W ...

– 2015 Achievement in Music *Barton Silverman – 2015 Achievement in Sports

2016

* Anthony Hernandez – 2016 Achievement in Fine Arts *

Tsuneko Sasamoto was Japan's first female photojournalist. Early life Sasamoto was born in Tokyo, Japan. She went to a college of home economics, but quit because of her ambition to become a painter. After dropping out, she attended an institute of painting w ...

– 2016 Lifetime Achievement *

Don McCullin Sir Donald McCullin (born 9 October 1935) is a British photojournalist, particularly recognised for his war photography and images of urban strife. His career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the Social documentary photograph ...

– 2016 Achievement in Photojournalism *

Rosalind Fox Solomon Rosalind Fox Solomon (April 2, 1930 – June 23, 2025) was an American photographer based in New York City. In 2007, the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography acquired Solomon's archive, which includes her photographic archive ...

– 2016 Achievement in Portraiture *

Graham Nash Graham William Nash (born 2 February 1942) is a British and American musician, singer and songwriter. He is known for his light tenor voice and for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crosby, Stills ...

– 2016 Double Exposure Award *

Nathan Lyons Nathan Lyons (January 10, 1930 – August 31, 2016) was an American photographer, curator, and educator. He exhibited his photographs from 1956 onwards, produced books of his own and edited those of others. Lyons was also a curator of photography ...

– 2016 Visionary Award *Simon Bruty – 2016 Achievement in Sports * Musée de l'Élysée – 2016 Spotlight Award

2017

Art Shay Art Shay (March 31, 1922 – April 28, 2018) was an American photographer and writer. Biography Born in 1922, Shay grew up in the Bronx and then served as a navigator in the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II, during which he flew 52 bomber ...

– Lifetime Achievement *

Larry Fink Laurence Douglas Fink (born November 2, 1952) is an American billionaire businessman. He is a co-founder, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, an American multinational investment management corporation. BlackRock is the largest money-management firm ...

– Achievement in Documentary * Josephine Herrick Project – Humanitarian Award *

Abelardo Morell Abelardo Morell (born 1948, Havana, Cuba) is a contemporary artist widely known for turning rooms into camera obscuras and then capturing the marriage of interior and exterior in large format photographs. He is also known for his 'tent-camera,' a ...

– Achievement in Fine Arts *

Steve Schapiro Steve Schapiro (November 16, 1934 – January 15, 2022) was an American photographer. He is known for his photojournalism work and for having captured key moments of the civil rights movement such as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedo ...

– Achievement in Photojournalism * Dominique Issermann – Achievement in Fashion *

Judith Joy Ross Judith Joy Ross (born 1946) is an American portrait photographer. Her books include ''Contemporaries'' (1995), ''Portraits'' (1996), ''Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools'' (2006) and ''Protest the War'' (2007), "exploring such themes as th ...

– Achievement in Portraiture

2018

Lee Friedlander Lee Friedlander (; born July 14, 1934) is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of his photographs including fra ...

– Lifetime Achievement * Jane Evelyn Atwood – Achievement in Documentary *

Shahidul Alam Shahidul Alam (born 1955) is a Bangladeshi media institution builder, a photojournalist, public speaker, storyteller, writer, blogger, curator, and educationist. Alam founded Drik Picture Library in 1989, Pathshala in 1998, the Chobi Mela Inter ...

– Humanitarian Award *

Raghu Rai Raghu Rai (born 1942) is an Indian photographer and photojournalist. He was a protégé of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who nominated Rai, then a young photojournalist, to join Magnum Photos in 1977. Rai became a photographer in the mid 1960s, soon ...

– Achievement in Photojournalism *

Gian Paolo Barbieri Gian Paolo Barbieri or Giampaolo Barbieri (1935 – 17 December 2024) was an Italian fashion photographer. Life and career Born on the Via Mazzini in Milan, Barbieri's family were fabric wholesalers, and his father owned a department store. He ...

– Achievement in Fashion *

Joyce Tenneson Joyce Tenneson (born May 29, 1945) is an American fine art photography, fine art photographer known for her distinctive style of photography, which often involves nude or semi-nude women. Biography Tenneson earned her master's degree in photogra ...

– Achievement in Portraiture *Camera Club of the Philippines – Spotlight Award *

Co Rentmeester Jacobus Willem Rentmeester (born 28 February 1936), nicknamed "Co" or "Ko", is a Dutch rower. He later became a photojournalist and covered the Vietnam War among other newsworthy events. Life and career Rentmeester was born in 1936 in Amster ...

Achievement in Sports *John Moore – Inaugural Impact Award *

Mohammad Rakibul Hasan Mohammad Rakibul Hasan (; born 29 September 1977), also known as M R Hasan, is a Bangladeshi journalist, documentary photographer, photojournalist, filmmaker and visual artist. He has made black and white photographs about climate change, politi ...

– Discovery of the Year

2019

– Lifetime Achievement *

Stephen Shore Stephen Shore (born October 8, 1947) is an American photographer known for his images of scenes and objects of the banal, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. His books include ''Uncommon Places'' (1982) and ''American Surfaces ...

– Achievement in Fine Arts *

Edward Burtynsky Edward Burtynsky (born February 22, 1955) is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large format photographs of industrial landscapes. His works depict locations from around the world that represent the increasing development of indust ...

– Achievement in Documentary *

Zanele Muholi Zanele Muholi (born 1972) is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000s, documenting and ...

– Humanitarian Award *

Maggie Steber Maggie Steber is an American documentary photographer. Her work has documented a wide range of issues, including the African slave trade, Native American issues in the United States, natural disasters, and science. Steber has produced the book ' ...

– Achievement in Photojournalism *

Ellen von Unwerth Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954) is a German photographer. She began her career as a fashion model, before becoming a fashion, editorial, and advertising photographer. Early life and education Unwerth was born in Frankfurt, West Germany. As an or ...

– Achievement in Fashion *

– Achievement in Portraiture *

Rencontres d'Arles The Rencontres d'Arles (formerly called ''Rencontres internationales de la photographie d'Arles'') is an annual summer photography festival founded in 1970 by the Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, the writer Michel Tournier and the historian ...

– Spotlight Award *Al Bello – Achievement in Sports *

Tyler Hicks Tyler Portis Hicks is a photojournalist who works as a staff photographer for ''The New York Times''. Based in Kenya, he covers foreign news for the newspaper with an emphasis on conflict and war. Early life and education Hicks was born in São ...

– Impact Award

2020

2020 Lucie Awards postponed due to the COVID 19 situation.

2021

Peter Magubane Peter Sexford Magubane OMSS (18 January 1932 – 1 January 2024) was a South African photographer and anti-apartheid activist. He began taking photos as a school boy and started professional photography at the ''Drum.'' Magubane became one o ...

– Lifetime Achievement *

Paul Caponigro Paul John Jerome Caponigro (December 7, 1932 – November 10, 2024) was an American photographer, writer and pianist. His best known photographs are ''Running White Deer'' and ''Galaxy Apple.'' His subject matter includes landscape and still life, ...

– Achievement in Fine Arts *

David Hurn David Hurn (born 1934) is a Welsh documentary photographer and member of Magnum Photos, who lives in South Wales. Early life and education Hurn was born in 1934 in Redhill, Surrey, England. He is of Welsh descent and was raised in Cardiff, Wale ...

– Achievement in Documentary *

Joel Sartore Joel Sartore is an American photographer focusing on conservation photography, conservation, speaker, author, teacher, and long-time contributor to National Geographic (magazine), ''National Geographic'' magazine. He is the head of ''The Photo Ar ...

– Humanitarian Award * Jean-Pierre Laffont – Achievement in Photojournalism *

Pamela Hanson Pamela Hanson (born 1954) is an American photographer and filmmaker, based in New York. Early life Hanson was born in London and was raised in Geneva. She attended the American School in Lugano, Switzerland and later moved to the United States ...

– Achievement in Fashion *

Lynn Goldsmith Lynn Goldsmith (born 1948) is an American recording artist, film director, celebrity portrait photographer, and rock and roll photographer. She has also made fine art photography with conceptual images and her paintings. Taschen, Rizzoli, an ...

– Achievement in Portraiture *

Steven Sasson Steve J. Sasson is an American electrical engineer and the inventor of the self-contained (portable) digital camera. He joined Kodak shortly after his graduation from engineering school and retired from Kodak in 2001. Early life and education S ...

– Spotlight Award *Bob Martin – Achievement in Sports

2022

* Robert Adams – Lifetime Achievement *

Sally Mann Sally Mann (born Sally Turner Munger; May 1, 1951) is an American photographer known for making large format black and white photographs of people and places in her immediate surroundings: her children, husband, and rural landscapes, as well as ...

– Achievement in Fine Arts * Lynn Johnson – Achievement in Documentary *

Ami Vitale Ami Vitale is an American photojournalist, documentary filmmaker, educator and speaker. In 2018, she published a photo book titled ''Panda Love'' which captures pandas within captivity and being released into the wild. Early life and education Vi ...

– Humanitarian Award *Michelle V. Agins – Achievement in Photojournalism *Manuel Outumuro – Achievement in Fashion *

Kwame Brathwaite Kwame Brathwaite (January 1, 1938 – April 1, 2023) was an American photojournalist and activist known for popularizing the phrase "Black is Beautiful" and documenting life and culture in Harlem and Africa. Life and work Born Gilbert Ronald ...

– Achievement in Portraiture *Tony Duffy – Achievement in Sports *Koto Bolofo – Achievement in Advertising *

Candida Höfer Candida Höfer (born 4 February 1944) is a German photographer. She is a renowned photographer known for her exploration of public spaces and architecture. In her career she transitioned from portraiture to focusing on spaces like libraries and m ...

– Achievement in Architecture * Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York – Spotlight/Visionary Award

2023

Raymond Depardon Raymond Depardon (; born 6 July 1942) is a French photographer, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. Early life Depardon was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France. Photographer Depardon is a mainly self-taught photographer, as he began ...

– Lifetime Achievement * Jo Ann Callis – Achievement in Fine Arts *

Jamel Shabazz Jamel Shabazz (born 1960) is an African American fashion, fine-art, documentary, and street style photographer. His work has been published in books, shown in exhibitions, and used in editorial magazine works. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. ...

– Achievement in Documentary * Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier – Humanitarian Award *

Carol Guzy Carol Guzy (born March 7, 1956) is an American news photographer. Guzy worked as a staff photographer for the ''Miami Herald'' from 1980 to 1988 and ''The Washington Post'' from 1988 to 2014. As of April 2022, Guzy is a contract photographer for ...

– Achievement in Photojournalism * Ming Smith – Achievement in Portraiture * Donald Miralle – Achievement in Sports * Firooz Zahedi – Achievement in Entertainment * Antwaun Sargent – Spotlight/Visionary Award

References

External links

*{{Official website, www.lucies.org
Interview with Susan Baraz, head of jury of IPA and Co-Chair oh the Lucie Awards
Dodho Magazine Awards established in 2003 Photography awards