Photo taken by Lylee Gibbs
Enan Chediak is a photojournalist from southern Illinois who earned his bachelor's degree at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
Email address: enan.chediak@gmail.com
Phone number: (618) 559-6906
He served as the Photo Editor at the Daily Egyptian, the 108-year-old student-run newspaper out of SIU. Before this, he worked as a staff photographer at John A. Logan College.
Chediak is the first photographer to win the Rickert-Ziebold Award, a competition for graduating seniors at the SIU School of Art and Design for his self-portrait series Preacher Boy.
He is also a 2025 Pulitzer fellow, working with photojournalist Lylee Gibbs on how research with low-glycemic rice could reduce rates of diabetes in a small village of Munches, Peru.
In 2025, he was selected by the Daily Egyptian advisory board to take part in their coverage of the 2025 presidential inauguration and has been a featured guest on the 21st Show, Illinois' state-wide NPR news roundup.
He also completed a 16-Hour Domestic Hostile Environment First Aid Course (DHEFAT) and “Stop The Bleed” Course at SIU Carbondale, Illinois in Spring of 2025.
(618) 559-6906
enan.chediak@gmail.com