Tyler Hicks (born 9 July 1969 in São Paulo, Brazil) is an American photojournalist who works as a staff photographer for The New York Times. Based in Kenya, he typically covers foreign affairs, with an emphasis in recent years on conflict and war, but also works at times on assignments across the United States.Hicks was named the newspaper photographer of the year by the Missouri School of Journalism's Pictures of the Year International contest in 2007.He shared the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting with a team from The New York Times recognized for coverage of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he works frequently in the field, focusing on the ground-level experience. 

In 2010, his photographs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with the war correspondence of his colleagues Dexter Filkins and C.J. Chivers, with whom he often works, were selected by New York University as being among the Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade.Hicks received a George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting in 2011.Tyler Hicks was present during the deadly attack by terrorists on the Westgate shopping center in Nairobi on September 21, 2013. He was close to the scene taking pictures and followed police as they searched for militants.For this work he was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.