Ozier Muhammad

Ozier Muhammad
Born1950 (age 75–76)
United States
OccupationPhotojournalist
ChildrenKhalil Gibran Muhammad (son)
RelativesElijah Muhammad (grandfather)
Websiteoziermuhammad.com

Ozier Muhammad (born 1950)[1] is an American photojournalist who was on the staff of The New York Times from 1992 to 2014. He has also worked for Ebony Magazine, The Charlotte Observer, and Newsday. He earned a B.A. in 1972 in photography from Columbia College Chicago.[2]

In 1984, Muhammad won the George Polk Award for News Photography.[3]

As a photographer for Newsday, Muhammad shared the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting with Joshua Friedman and Dennis Bell "for their series on the plight of the hungry in Africa."[4]

He was selected as a photographer for the 1990 project Songs of My People.[5]

Muhammad's work was included in the 2025 exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 at the National Gallery of Art.[1]

Personal

Muhammad is a grandson of Elijah Muhammad, a founder of the Nation of Islam.[6]

He was formerly married to Dr. Kimberly Muhammad-Earl, a director of special projects at the Chicago Board of Education.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Brookman, Philip; Willis, Deborah (2025). Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985. New Haven London: Yale University Press. p. 260. ISBN 9780300283501.
  2. ^ "Ozier Muhammad". Western Kentucky University. October 25, 2004. Retrieved April 25, 2010.
  3. ^ The George Polk Awards for Journalism Archived 2007-08-21 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ "International Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
  5. ^ "Songs of My People: A Collection of Photographs from the Museum of Art and Archaeology" Archived 2010-06-01 at the Wayback Machine. University of Missouri. Retrieved August 7, 2009.
  6. ^ Muhammad, Ozier. "How Race is Lived in America: Photographer's Journal: Which Man's Army". The New York Times. 2000.
  7. ^ "WEDDINGS; Stephanie Lawson, K. G. Muhammad". The New York Times. March 1, 1998.
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