James Hill

James Hill is one of the world’s leading photojournalists and his work has won many of photojournalism’s most prestigious prizes including the Pulitzer Prize, World Press Photo, the Visa d’Or at Perpignan’s Visa pour l’Image and awards from the Overseas Press Club of America and the National Press Photographer’s Association of America.


Educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and the London College of Printing where he studied photojournalism, he left England for the Soviet Union to begin his career as a photographer in 1991. After the fall of the Soviet Union he travelled across the former Soviet republics documenting the continuous strife that engulfed those newly independent states. In 1995 he joined the New York Times on as their European Contract Photographer, a position that he holds to this day. In 1998 he moved to Rome from where he covered Italy, the Middle East and also returned to Russia to travel principally to Chechnya. After 9/11 he was sent to Afghanistan for 4 months to witness the collapse of the Taliban regime and in 2003 went with US Marines to Baghdad during the invasion of Iraq.


Since 2003 he has returned to live in Moscow with his family, from where he continues to travel the world for the New York Times and international news magazines and other clients.In the last few years he has embarked on a wide-ranging series of books and exhibitions. In 2009 “In Russias,” a monograph of his work in Russia was published. The following year his project on Russian WWII veterans “Victory Day” was released as a book with the support of the British Council. It was awarded Book of the Year at the Moscow International Book Festival. In 2011 a study on bullfighting “Days of San Isidro” commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of Culture was published as part of the Year of Spain in Russia. Recent exhibitions have included a retrospective at Perpignan’s Visa pour L’Image as well as two exhibitions at the Moscow House of Photography. In 2010 his veterans project “Victory Day” was exhibited at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. In 2011 “Days of San Isidro” was presented at the GMG Gallery in Moscow.