Muhammed Muheisen (born 1981) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and the recipient of numerous international awards. He is a National Geographic photographer and the founder of the Dutch non-profit organization Everyday Refugees Foundation.
Muheisen was born and raised in Jerusalem and graduated with a B.A. degree in journalism and political science. Since 2001 he has documented major events around the world, in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the United States of America: including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the funeral of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the US led -war in Iraq, the capture of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, the Yemeni revolution, the Syrian Civil War, the funeral procession of the late president Nelson Mandela, as well as major events in Saudi Arabia, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, France, Greece, Macedonia, Germany, Croatia, Austria, New York, the Netherlands, Serbia and South Africa. For over a decade he has been documenting the refugee crisis across the Middle East, Asia and Europe.
Muheisen has received numerous International Awards, including:
÷ ààààUNICEF Picture of the Year.
÷ ààààTwo-time Breaking News Pulitzer Prize winner.
÷ ààààTIME MagazineâÂÂs Best Wire Photographer.
÷ ààààEmerging Person in Photography Special Award by the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award
÷ ààààPOYI, Picture of the Year International.
÷ ààààMultiple prizes in the National Headliner Awards.
÷ ààààMultiple prizes in the NPPA Best of Photojournalism.
÷ ààààMultiple prizes in the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar.
÷ ààààMultiple prizes in Asian Media Awards, best in photojournalism.
÷ ààààThe Oliver S. Gramling Award for journalism.
÷ ààààThe John L. Dougherty Award.
÷ ààààFestival Du Scoop Award.
÷ ààààMultiple Awards in the China International Press Photo Contest.
÷ ààààSigma Delta Chi Awards.
÷ ààààMultiple Prizes in Xposure International Photography Festival Award.
÷ ààààMultiple prizes in: the APME News Photos Award.
÷ ààààThe MCF Engaged Journalist Award.
÷ ààààWorld Press Photo Joop Swart Master Class participant.
Muheisen is the Founder and Chairman of Everyday Refugees Foundation that aims through photography to help and empower refugees and internally displaced people in different parts of the world. He is a member of the Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award advisory committee at the International Women Media Foundation, a member of the nominating committee selecting the participants for the annual World Press Photo Joop Swart Master Class, a member of the advisory board of Forum Anja Niedringhaus in Höxter, Germany and a member of the Artist Advisory Board for the CASE Art Fund based in Illinois, US.
Muheisen served as a jury member in the 2016 Picture of the Year International in Columbia, MO, the 2015 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the 2013 Visa DâÂÂOr for Visa pour LâÂÂImage in Perpignan, France, the 2017 LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards, and most recently he is a member of the jury for the 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo.
Among other exhibitions, a collection from a decade of his work about âÂÂLife in Warâ was exhibited in the French photo festival Visa pour LâÂÂImage in Perpignan.
His work about refugees was exhibited at Festival des Libertes in Brussels, Belgium, his work about the displaced people was exhibited at THE FENCE in Brooklyn, Atlanta, Boston and Houston, USA, also a selection of his work âÂÂPursuit of Happinessâ was exhibited at the Angkor Photo Festival, and for the second year in a row, his work âÂÂVictims of Warâ and âÂÂFaces of Sharjahâ was exhibited at Xposure International Photography Festival in Sharjah, UAE. And most recently in October 2018 he launched his photo exhibition âÂÂLight on the Moveâ at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece which will be touring Europe in 2019.