The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced last week that Rick Loomis of the Los Angeles Times has won the 2013 Hillman Prize for Photojournalism for his series “Beyond 7 Billion” an eye-opening look at the environmental, geopolitical, economic, cultural, and religious dimensions of the global population boom. The world’s population has grown rapidly in the last two centuries, after holding steady for much of human history, and the unprecedented expansion is far from over. Loomis travelled around the world to document the way population growth is changing families, challenging spiritual certitudes, taxing the natural environment, fuelling conflict, and deepening poverty. 

Loomis and the other Hillman Prize-winners will be honored at a ceremony on May 7 at the New York Times Center.