Heikes, Darryl

For decades, Darryl Heikes’ photographs appeared in leading publications worldwide including on the front pages of the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the Washington Post and the covers of U. S. News and World Report. Throughout his career, many of his photographs have won awards from the White House News Photographers Association, Picture of the Year Competition, and World Press.

Heikes began his career in photojournalism taking photographs for the Salina High School newspaper in Kansas. While enrolled as a student at Kansas State University, Heikes was a stringer for United Press International (UPI), Associated Press (AP), the Kansas City Star, Topeka Capital Journal and the Salina Journal. In 1961, UPI recruited Heikes to work as a wire service photographer. For the next twenty years he worked at the bureaus in Kansas City, Oklahoma City, in Austin, Texas on contract with the Austin American Statesman and in Dallas on contract with the Dallas Times Herald, Madison, Wisconsin (1964-1965), Minneapolis (1966-1967), and Washington D C (1967-1981).

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