Santiago Lyon

Santiago Lyon is the Head of Advocacy and Education for Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative. Previously Director of Business Development for Adobe Stock he has more than 35 years of experience in photography as an award-winning photojournalist, photo editor, media executive and educator. 2003-2016 he was a Nieman Fellow in journalism at Harvard University before being named Director of Photography at the Associated Press. Under his direction the AP won three Pulitzer Prizes for photography as well as multiple other major photojournalism awards around the world. Lyon serves on the boards of directors of the Eddie Adams Workshop, the VII Foundation, the RISC journalism safety organization and SALT NYC, an organization using photography to support underserved high school students in New York City.