About the Photographer

Ed Hille, (b. 1950) spent more than four decades as a photojournalist striving to capture the moments that have helped shape our lives. He crisscrossed America and the globe, completing assignments on five continents while covering a spectrum of news, feature and sporting events. Major assignments included political conventions, MLB playoffs and World Series, the Grand Prix races in Monaco and Dallas, Texas, the Kentucky Derby, the 49th anniversary of the D-Day landing in Normandy and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway.

            Mr. Hille documented political and social instability 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. In 1985 he was part of The Philadelphia Inquirer’s team covering the assault by the Philadelphia police on the fringe, back to nature group known as MOVE.

             Hille photographed all American presidents from Ford through Obama as well as world leaders Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Margaret Thatcher, the Dali Lama, Benazir Bhutto, Pope John Paul II, and Pope Francis.

    From the little leagues to the majors, from local politics to the world stage Mr. Hille’s career afforded him access to the ordinary as well as the extraordinary. Photography provided him with experiences that most people only dream of and a real-life education unattainable from the finest college or university.

             In November 2016 Mr. Hille was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. He retired a year later ending his 40 year career as a newspaper photographer. He continues to be active, taking pictures that matter to him while picking and choosing assignments and projects and documenting stories closer to home.

             An award-winning photojournalist, Mr. Hille has received accolades from numerous local, state, national, and international organizations. He is most proud to have been nominated on more than one occasion for the Pulitzer Prize.

       IN PLAIN SIGHT  Public Art In Philadelphia is Ed Hille’s first book.

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