Max Whittaker has covered wildfires for over 20 years, and spent two seasons documenting the Tallac Hotshots and other crews in this visual story for The New York Times.
Read MoreMax Whittaker and Brendan Hoffman both received Awards of Excellence from the 78th Pictures of the Year International.
Read MoreMax Whittaker, for The New York Times, photographed farm workers in California, half to three-quarters of whom are believed to be undocumented yet vital to the food supply in the time of coronavirus.
Read MoreMax Whittaker scaled the 22,840’ peak of Argentina’s Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside the Himalayas, following Isabella de la Houssaye’s effort to scale the mountain while battling Stage 4 lung cancer, on assignment for The New York Times.
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