The picture I always mention when people ask “Have I ever seen anything you have done?”
Lucas Jackson
Lucas Jackson grew up on a remote cattle ranch near Quemado, NM with his parents and three siblings. He received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR followed by spending several years as a commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska before beginning his career in journalism.
As a Reuters Senior Photographer based in New York, Jackson has a wide range of experience covering news events ranging from the Academy Awards to the aftermath of natural disasters and both nationally and internationally scaled stories He has covered racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, the impacts of climate change on glaciers in Greenland, coral degradation in the Caribbean, the 2014 Sochi Olympics, and the “forever wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For his work, Jackson has been awarded awards from several industry leading organizations including National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism awards, Pictures of the Year International, Prix de la Photographie, New York Press Photographers Association, and China International Press Photography.
A link to many of the stories I have worked on in the past several years.