Graham Dickie
Graham Dickie (b. 1995) is an freelance photographer from Austin, Texas, USA, currently living in New York City. Most recently he worked on the staff of The New York Times as part of its 2024-25 Newsroom Fellowship program, photographing over 200 assignments spanning almost every desk of the newsroom.
Graham graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017 with highest honors in the Plan II honors program and journalism. While a student, he embedded with a small group of deaf journalists in Maputo, Mozambique; worked for a film studio in Austin on a documentary about former New York Times editor Gene Roberts; and filed radio reports from the National Public Radio member station in Marfa, Texas. He completed his thesis – on small-town Southern rap – under the supervision of photographer Eli Reed.
After graduation from UT, Graham followed the ancient Silk Road from Kazakhstan to Beijing, living there for nine months and working at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (三影堂摄影艺术中心), the leading space for photography in the country. From China he went to Scandinavia, where he apprenticed with the Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol for much of 2018 while living on a remote stretch of Danish coastline.
From 2020 into 2021, Graham served as the annual photography intern at National Geographic. In 2019, he was named College Photographer of the Year by the CPOY competition for a portfolio of his work from the past year. He attended the 30th Eddie Adams Workshop in 2017, and in 2018 his work in rural Louisiana received first prize in the Alexia Foundation’s student grant competition, providing for a semester-long fellowship at Syracuse University. He has received additional support from the Magnum Foundation and the Film Photo Award.
From 2022 through early 2024 Graham worked as an independent photographer and completed several ambitious long-distance hikes across America totaling roughly 7,000 miles, including the Continental Divide Trail (~3,000 miles, summer/fall 2022, southbound from Montana to the New Mexico bootheel), Appalachian Trail (~2,200 miles, summer 2023, northbound from Georgia to Maine in 78 days), Arizona Trail (~800 miles, spring 2022, northbound from Mexico border to Utah), Ouachita Trail (~220 miles, spring 2022, Central Arkansas to Eastern Oklahoma), Northern New Mexico Loop (~560 miles, fall 2023, wilderness route bridging the Sangre de Cristo and Jemez Mountains), and Ozark Highlands Trail (207 miles, spring 2024, a traverse of the Boston Mountains in northern Arkansas). In the summer of 2025 he walked the 2,650 mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada, covering the lengths of California, Oregon, and Washington.
