Ozier Muhammad Photojournalist

Awards and Fellowships

In 1985 Ozier shared the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting with Josh Friedman and Dennis Bell, for a series of reports titled “Africa, The desperate Continent,” for Newsday.  

For that report, Ozier also won the Polk award in News Photography. The report was about drought and famine and its political consequences.  

 

Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University in 1986-87. 

 

Peter Jennings Fellow in 2007 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA 

  • Africa The Desperate Continent
  • After The Earthquake in Haiti
  • Duke Ellington In Chicago
  • Portraits
  • Harlem
  • Haitians Children Orphaned After Eartrhquake
  • New Orleans After Katrina 2005 to 2006
  • Equal Justice Initiative Community Remembrance Project
  • Jazz
  • South Africa's Non-Racial Election
  • Alex Township Sunday Worshippers 2013
  • Nelson Mandela's 95th Birthday
  • Nelson Mandela's Death Celebrated and Mourned
  • Robben Island
  • Obama
  • OWS Zuccotti Park
  • Scenes from Afghanistan
  • Iraq
  • Protest March Against Killing of Amadou Diallo
  • Southwest Africa Becomes Namibia
  • Chicago
  • NATO Protest Chicago
  • Elections In Nigeria 1999
  • Abstracts At Home
  • Abstracts Abroad
  • Links To Video Profiles and Interviews
    • Profile In Columbia College Alumni Magazine
    • Profile In Huck Magazine, London England
    • Ozier Muhammad and Senator Barack Obama
    • On Assignment With Ozier Muhammad
    • Harlem Clergy Portraits
  • Contact
  • Background
  • Awards and Fellowships
  • Sales

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