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James Hill was born in 1967 in London, England, UK. After attending Oxford and the London College of Printing, he took up photography and in 1991 set off for the Soviet Union where he worked for over ten years, first in Kiev, then from 1995 on based in Moscow as a contract photographer for The New York Times newspaper.
His work from Afghanistan, where he spent three months in 2001, earned him the Pulitzer Prize.
In 2003 he reported on the war in Iraq for The New York Times and Time magazine. A web journal of his weeks with US troops, “In the Heart of the Fight,” was awarded the NPPA award for best news picture story on the web. In 2005 his images from the Beslan tragedy won First Prize in General News Stories at World Press Photo and the award for Feature Photography from the
Overseas Press Club of America.
His work has been distributed by Contact Press Images since 2004.
He is based in Moscow, Russia.
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