Carolyn Van Houten

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 (2016); Excellence in Photojournalism award from NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists (2017), Robert Capa Gold Medal (2018), and Photography - International category, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (2019).

Life and work
Van Houten grew up on a farm in rural North Carolina. She studied journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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, based in Washington, DC.

Awards

 * 2016: Winner, Newspaper Photographer of the Year, Pictures of the Year International
 * 2017: Excellence in Photojournalism award from NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists
 * 2018: Robert Capa Gold Medal, from the Overseas Press Club of America
 * 2019: Winner, Photography - International category, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights