Damon Winter

I am a New York Times photographer working with the Opinion section, based in Miami.

What I Cover

As the only staff photographer assigned to Opinion, my coverage area is broad and diverse. My main areas of focus are politics and climate change, but I am also keenly interested in voting rights, organized labor and the state of American democracy.

My Background

I was born in upstate New York and raised in the U.S. Virgin Islands. After high school, I returned to New York to study environmental science at Columbia University. Before joining the staff of The New York Times in 2007, I worked as a photojournalist for 10 years at several newspapers across the country. I have covered conflicts in Israel and Afghanistan, the 9/11 attacks on New York, the Winter Olympics and stories in Vietnam, Cuba, Russia, Greenland and India, among other countries. I spent a year and a half covering the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in Haiti and the country’s struggles through a deadly cholera outbreak and a tumultuous national election. I also worked on a project documenting a battalion of U.S. Army soldiers on their yearlong deployment to Kunduz, Afghanistan, during a surge in the war. That multimedia project won Emmy and Dupont awards. My first political assignment was covering Barack Obama’s first campaign for president in 2008, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. I went on to cover his second bid in 2012 as well as both of Donald Trump’s campaigns in 2016 and 2020. Much of my work since has focused on the landscape of American politics and society. I began my current assignment with the Opinion section in 2018.

Journalistic Ethics

As a New York Times journalist with 25 years of experience, I am deeply committed to The Times’s standards of ethics and integrity. As a journalist working in the field I feel a great responsibility to represent those values and to be a positive ambassador for the profession as a whole. Working with the Opinion section, I take pictures that are provocative, that challenge readers, but also reinforce and support the ideas expressed by our columnists, editorials and guest essays. I work closely with my editors to find new ways to push visual boundaries while continuing to be true to the issues and people I cover. My journalistic integrity and commitment to respecting the dignity of the people I photograph are constant regardless of the subject or section of the newspaper.

• Email: damonw@nytimes.com