Carolyn Van Houten is an American photojournalist who works for ''The Washington Post''. She has won Newspaper Photographer of the Year,

Pictures of the Year International Pictures of the Year International (POYi) is a professional development program for visual journalists run on a non-profit basis by the Missouri School of Journalism's Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. POYi began as an annual competition f ...

(2016); Excellence in Photojournalism award from NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists (2017),

Robert Capa Gold Medal The Robert Capa Gold Medal is an award for "best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise". It is awarded annually by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). It was created in honor of the war photo ...

(2018), and Photography - International category,

Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism is a journalism award named after Robert F. Kennedy and awarded by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The annual awards are issued in several categories and were est ...

(2019).

Life and work

Van Houten grew up on a farm in rural

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. She studied journalism at the

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. She has worked as a photo intern at '' National Geographic'', and a staff photojournalist at the '' San Antonio Express-News'' covering south and west Texas. she is a staff photojournalist at ''

The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...

'', based in Washington, DC.

Awards

*2016: Winner, Newspaper Photographer of the Year,

*2017: Excellence in Photojournalism award from NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists *2018:

, from the

Overseas Press Club The Overseas Press Club of America (OPC) was founded in 1939 in New York City by a group of foreign correspondents. The wire service reporter Carol Weld was a founding member, as was the war correspondent Peggy Hull. The club seeks to maintain ...

of America *2019: Winner, Photography - International category,

from the

Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (formerly the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, or RFK Center) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit human rights advocacy organization. It was named after United States Senator Robert F. Kenned ...

References

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