Ringo Chiu

Ringo Chiu is a 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Breaking News Photography. His works have been published worldwide and have received numerous honors including:

Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles' 2019 Photojournalist of the Year (POY).

Los Angeles Press Club's 2014 and 2017 Southern California Photojournalist of the Year (POY).

Canada's Photojournalism Photography Award Winner in Applied Arts Magazine Annual Contest 2007.

Best Hong Kong News Photography in 1992, 1993, and 1994.

Ringo was born in China and raised in Hong Kong, where he graduated from Chu Hai College of Higher Education with a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication. He also received his 2nd B.A. in Special Major with an emphasis in Photojournalism during his time in California State University of Northridge (CSUN).

During his time in Asia, he worked for Hong Kong Express, Hong Kong Sing Tao Daily and Evening Post on several assignments: the Eastern China flooding, the Sino-British meetings in Beijing, the amnesty for Chinese illegal immigrants in Macau, and the Hong Kong Handover.

Ringo currently lives in Los Angeles and is a professional photographer working as a chief editorial photographer for the Los Angeles Business Journal. He also works as a freelance photographer for AFP, Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, Xinhua, Los Angeles Times and Zuma Press.