Biography Max Becherer

New Orleans, LOUISIANA - March 8, 2017: The Robert E. Lee Monument is seen in Lee Circle in New Orleans, Louisiana on Wednesday, March 8, 2017. The city of New Orleans has requested bids from contractors to relocate three Confederate monuments located around the city after the motion was cleared by a federal appeals court decision this week. The removal of the Confederate monuments created heated debate with one said saying they are historical monuments and the other side saying they are symbols that influence modern day racism. (Polaris Images/Max Becherer)
Confederate Monuments

New Orleans, LOUISIANA - March 8, 2017: The Robert E. Lee Monument is seen in Lee Circle in New Orleans, Louisiana on Wednesday, March 8, 2017. The city of New Orleans has requested bids from contractors to relocate three Confederate monuments located around the city after the motion was cleared by a federal appeals court decision this week. The removal of the Confederate monuments created heated debate with one said saying they are historical monuments and the other side saying they are symbols that influence modern day racism. (Polaris Images/Max Becherer)

Max Becherer is a national photo assignment editor at The Washington Post. Before joining The Post, Becherer was a photo editor for five years at the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate, where he contributed visuals to a series of stories about a Jim Crow-era law that allowed non-unanimous juries for criminal cases. The series won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting and helped change the law in Louisiana. Before arriving in New Orleans, Becherer covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over a decade, producing still images, video and written content from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Egypt as a photojournalist.