Bio

Jim Huylebroek is a freelance photographer from Antwerp, Belgium. Months before graduating from photography school in his hometown, he moved to Kabul, Afghanistan, where he has been based since early 2015. In the summer of 2021, he was present when the Taliban entered the Afghan capital and the last U.S. troops left. 

Huylebroek was part of the New York Times team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for their investigation of civilian casualties from U.S. airstrikes. 

Huylebroek has been commissioned or published by The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, Paris Match and others. He has been a regular contributor to The New York Times since 2017. 

His first photo book Afghanistan: Unsettled - Three years documenting Afghans on the move was published in cooperation with Norwegian Refugee Council in 2018. He has produced work in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Ukraine, Moldova and the Balkans. 

2021 Leica Fotographie International / BarTur Photojournalist of the Year
2021-2022 Emmy Award for Best News Coverage: Short Form
2021-2022 Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Short Form
2022 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
2022 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting - Finalist
2022 Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia