Michelle V Agins

Native Chicagoan and Pulitzer Prize-winner Michelle V. Agins is a staff photojournalist for The New York Times . She has received two Pulitzer Prize nominations, once for her photos from the Bensonhust protests, and once for her series on the Times series "Another America: Life on 129th Street." She and her colleagues at the Times won the Pulitzer Prize for their series "How Race is Lived in America." Her photographs have appeared in Essence , Sports Illustrated , Ebony , and Jet . She is...See more

Native Chicagoan and Pulitzer Prize-winner Michelle V. Agins is a staff photojournalist for The New York Times . She has received two Pulitzer Prize nominations, once for her photos from the Bensonhust protests, and once for her series on the Times series "Another America: Life on 129th Street." She and her colleagues at the Times won the Pulitzer Prize for their series "How Race is Lived in America." Her photographs have appeared in Essence , Sports Illustrated , Ebony , and Jet . She is featured in Songs of My People and Photographs of Hope . She is also the coauthor of Rookie , a children's book on the WNBA player Tamika Whitmore. Michelle has won regional and national awards including the Gordon Parks Award for Broken Promises , a story of indigent people living along the Mississippi Delta. She now lives in Brooklyn with her family. See less