Since Sept. 11, 2001, Denver Post staff photojournalist Craig F. Walker has covered some of the most important reverberations of the terror
attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., fixing a compassionate lens on the men, women and children tangled then, and now, in the continuing story of geopolitical conflict. He chronicled the aftermath of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers in New York, the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002, the installation of Hamid Karzai as head of Afghanistan’s provisional government in 2001, and the deployment of American troops in Kuwait in 2003, and in Iraq in 2005 and 2009. His photographs of child camel jockeys racing in the Kuwaiti desert received first place in 2004 from the National Press Photographers Association and Pictures of the Year International. In 2009, his photo essay "Ian Fisher: American Soldier" won the grand prize in Editor & Publisher’s Photos of the Year competition. His honors also include a first-place National Headliners Award in 2002 for a portfolio of work.

Walker came to the Post in 1998 from the Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass., where, he chronicled the final six months in the life of a woman with AIDS. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Photography, he began his career in Massachusetts, at the Marlborough Enterprise.