Patrick Farrell

Patrick Farrell - Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Patrick Farrell has been a professional photojournalist for more than 25 years. His work has taken him to Turkey, Haiti, Cuba and throughout Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean.

In 2009, Farrell’s haunting images from a brutal hurricane season in Haiti won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. Farrell was recognized for what the Pulitzer Committee called “provocative, impeccably composed” photos of the fragile country’s humanitarian disaster. His photographs from Haiti also have been recognized with first place prizes from Pictures of the Year International and the Overseas Press Club, among other awards.

Farrell has been a staff photographer at The Miami Herald since 1987. He juxtaposes the serious nature of his work with artful celebrity and business portraits, elegant travel documentaries and progressive commercial freelance work as diverse as his South Florida home.