Jack Dykinga


Jack William Dykinga is an American photographer. For 1970 work with the Chicago Sun-Times he won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography citing "dramatic and sensitive photographs at the Lincoln and Dixon State Schools for the Retarded in Illinois."

Career

Born in Chicago, Dykinga began his career at the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times before moving to Arizona, where he joined the Arizona Daily Star and taught at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College.
Dykinga left the Arizona Daily Star and photojournalism in 1985. Thanks to the support and inspiration of a friend, he started to work on a book about the Sonoran Desert. The publication of The Sonoran Desert launched his new career as a nature and conservation photographer.
Dykinga is a founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. His work appears in Arizona Highways and National Geographic.
He shows at the G2 Gallery.
He is on the board of the Sonoran Desert National Park Project.
In 2010, Dykinga was photographer in residence at Sedona Photofest.

Personal

Dykinga lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife Margaret Malley; they married in 1965.
He attended Riverside Brookfield Township High School.

Awards and honors