Patrick Witty is the International Picture Editor of TIME. Before joining the magazine in May of 2010, he was the International Picture Editor at The New York Times. Previous to editing, Witty was a freelance photographer based in Washington, DC. and New York. His editorial work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Mother Jones and The New York Times Magazine. Witty’s photographs from 9/11 were widely published, appearing in Vanity Fair, Time, Newsweek, Geo, Stern, and have been exhibited at the musee de l’Elysee, The Hayward Gallery, The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and The World Trade Center Memorial construction site.
Among the many stories Witty coordinated and edited at the Times are the United States' ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bhutto assassination, the Gaza war, the Sichuan Earthquake, the Russia-Georgia War, and conflict from all over Africa. He was a member of The New York Times foreign staff awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2009 for coverage in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has won numerous editing awards from POYi, and The Best of Photojournalism.
In July of 2008 while at The New York Times, Witty discovered a manipulated photograph released by the Iranian government of a missile launch that many websites and newspapers subsequently published the following day. The Times printed a story by Witty about the doctored image. On the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square, a story Witty wrote detailing the experience of four photographers who captured the iconic
“Tank Man” image prompted the discovery of a never-before-seen fifth angle.
Born in Kentucky in 1972, Mr. Witty has a degree in Photojournalism from Western Kentucky University.
Patrick Witty
