Amr Alfiky is an award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker based in the United Arab Emirates. He is currently a staff photographer for Reuters, where he has reported extensively across the Middle East—including Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Turkey, and Libya. His coverage of the 2023 earthquakes, the Libya floods, and the escalating tensions along the Israel–Lebanon border has been central to Reuters' visual reporting in the region.
Amr began his career in Egypt, where he studied medicine at Alexandria University and served as a field medic during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. That pivotal experience led him to photography, and in 2013 he co-founded Janaklees for Visual Arts, one of Egypt’s most influential visual arts collectives.
In 2014, he moved to the United States amid a growing crackdown on humanitarian workers, journalists, and activists. There, he began documenting the lives of Egyptian and Arab immigrants, developing a long-term body of work centered on identity, displacement, and the everyday lives of marginalized communities. His photography has been featured in The New York Times, Reuters, TIME, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and other major international outlets. He remains a frequent contributor to both Reuters and The New York Times.
Alfiky also served as a photography resident at National Geographic Magazine, where he worked as both photographer and photo editor. In this role, he commissioned and produced in-depth stories on urgent global issues such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. He worked closely with contributing photographers to shape mid- and long-form visual narratives, and served as a consultant on sensitive reporting—offering strategic guidance on how to ethically and accurately cover communities of color and minority groups in both the U.S. and the Middle East.
His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Photoville and PhotoPlus Expo, and he has been selected for prestigious programs including the Eddie Adams Workshop, the Missouri Photo Workshop, and The New York Times Portfolio Review. He was a photo intern at the Magnum Foundation, and worked as a teaching assistant to Fred Ritchin and James Estrin at the International Center of Photography.
Alfiky holds a Master’s degree in Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, and has completed internships at NPR in Washington, D.C., and the Associated Press in Chicago. In 2019, he worked as a freelance photo editor at ABC News, and in 2020, he joined The New York Times as a photography fellow, covering major national stories including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
📧 Email: alfikyamr@gmail.com
📸 Instagram: @amr.alfiky
Photo credit: Mena Assad