About

I am the East Africa Chief Photographer, Photo Editor and Bureau Chief for the Associated Press (AP) news agency in Nairobi, Kenya. A staff photojournalist for the AP since 2003, I've previously been responsible for AP's photo coverage from the Middle East, and before that West Africa.

This is my personal website for my photographic portfolio - it is not an AP website. To license any of the images on this site, please contact AP Images directly.

To contact me personally, kindly use the "Send Message" button at the right of this page.

On the web

My most recent work for AP can be viewed here at AP Newsroom

"Close-Up: Photographer Ben Curtis" profile at AP Images Blog
Pulitzer Center Grant - Ethiopia coverage
AP Images Blog - Ethiopia Tigray Eritrean troops
AP Images Blog - Ethiopia Tigray TPLF town
AP Images Blog - Ethiopia Tigray Hunger
AP Images Blog - Kenyan Protests imagery
AP Images Blog - Saving Elephants
AP Images Blog - Kenya Albinism contest
Ben Curtis interviewed by film director Errol Morris in the NY Times: Part. 1 and Part. 2

Awards

Nieman Fellowship, Harvard University (2023-2024)
Atlanta Photojournalism News Picture Story, 2nd Place, Tigray conflict in Ethiopia (2021)
AP Gramling Journalism Award (2021) - Ethiopia coverage
NPPA Best of Photojournalism, Honorable Mention - Kenya hotel attack (2020)
APME Awards, Feature Singles - Winner - Kenya Garbage Dump (2019)
APME Awards, Honorable Mention - Kenya Election Violence (2018)
NPPA International News Picture Story, 3rd Place – Kenya protests (2017)
NPPA International News Single, Honorable Mention – Kenya protests (2017)
NPPA Sports Action Single, 3rd Place - Wimbledon Tennis (2017)
AP Global Sports Accountability Reporting award (2017)
Atlanta Photojournalism Spot News, Honorable mention - Kenya protests (2016)
Atlanta Photojournalism International News story, 3rd prize - Kenya protests (2016)
NPPA Best of Photojournalism, 2nd prize, Iranian elections (2010)
Pictures of the Year International, 3rd prize, Iranian elections (2010)
Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, 2nd prize, Iranian elections (2009)
NABJ Salute to Excellence finalist, Kenyan civil conflict (2009)
Clarion Award, Kenyan civil conflict (2009)
Bayeux Award for War Correspondents, 2nd prize, Kenyan civil conflict (2008)
E&P Photos of the Year, Honorable mention, Kenyan civil conflict (2008)
Pictures of the Year International, Award of Excellence, Togo violence (2006)
World Press Photo, 1st prize - Spot News stories, Togo violence (2005)
Bayeux Award for War Correspondents, finalist, Liberian civil war (2004)