Erin Grace Trieb is an award-winning photojournalist focusing on geopolitical conflict, humanitarian issues, and cultures around the world. Erin has spent almost two decades as a photojournalist and documentary photographer covering conflict and world events in Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine. She has also covered major domestic news stories such as the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd, Covid-19 hotspots and devastating hurricanes in Texas and Louisiana. Her photography spans a diversity of subject matter from international news to social issue-driven topics like trauma and women’s rights.

She photographs regularly for National Geographic, The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, ESPN Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine and many others. Erin’s work has received international recognition and awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of The Year International, The Art Director's Club, the Magenta Foundation, and American Photography. In 2007 she was the youngest photographer to receive a World Press Photo award for her coverage of Kinky Friedman’s gubernatorial race in Texas. Her documentary work of U.S. military medics in Afghanistan won her an award from Pictures of the Year International in 2010. She was the youngest recipient to receive the distinguished Alumni Award in 2014 from her Alma Mater, Texas A&M University-Commerce. In 2017 she was named a Female Icon of Adventure by Outside Magazine, and in 2020 the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas invited Erin as the youngest photographer to contribute her archive to the Briscoe’s permanent photography collection.

Erin’s photography has exhibited at The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, The United Nations headquarters in New York, the Visa Pour L’Image Festival in Perpignan, France, The Houston Center of Photography in Texas, and the Bronx Documentary Center in New York. Her work from the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan was included in “War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which toured nationally throughout 2012, and is now included in the museum’s permanent collection.