Ed Hille

Ed Hille is a Philadelphia based photojournalist and staff photographer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Hille has spent the past three decades striving to capture the moments and events that have helped to shape our lives. He has produced award winning photographs in our region and he has criss-crossed America and the globe, completing assignments on five continents, and covering a spectrum of news, feature and sporting events. Major political conventions, two World Series, and the Winter Olympics have been some of the highlights. Hille documented insurrections in El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Sudan and Liberia, the struggle for independence in Namibia, the first free elections in Haiti, and the lifting of the iron curtain in Romania. He photographed Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton; Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Margaret Thatcher, the Dali Lama and Pope John Paul II. From the little leagues to the majors, from local politics to the world stage, his career has afforded him an education like no other.

Ed Hille is the recipient of numerous awards including honors from the Philadelphia and Dallas Press Clubs, The National Headliners Association, World Press, The Texas Headliners Association, The Society For Professional Journalists (SDX) and The National Football League. In 1995 Hille was awarded the Richard Burke Fellowship by the Philadelphia Inquirer and subsequently attended Swarthmore College as a visiting fellow. Hille was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Ed Hille resides in Moylan, Pennsylvania, with his wife Kathi and daughter Alexandra.