Just a Good Conversation: Luis Sinco

Luis Sinco is a photojournalist with more than 40 years of experience. His career started with small, ethnic community newspapers in Seattle and Los Angeles. In 1987, he got a job as a reporter-photographer with Copley Los Angeles Newspapers. He was a freelance photographer for four years before joining the staff of the Los Angeles Times in 1997.

Sinco was part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for the Times—for coverage of the Northridge Earthquake and for the 2004 California wildfires. In 2003 and 2004, the Times assigned him to cover the war in Iraq. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his photographic coverage of the battle of Fallouja.

Born Sept. 11, 1959, Sinco migrated from the Philippines to the United States as a child. He grew up in the Pacific Northwest and has a bachelor’s degree in communications/journalism from the University of Washington. He has lived in Long Beach, California, since 1984