Carolyn Van Houten
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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).
Van Houten grew up on a farm in rural North Carolina. She studied journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1]
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. As of 2023[update] she is a staff photojournalist at The Washington Post, based in Washington, DC.[1]
