Huntington Beach police shoot and kill armed man

Irfan Khan was a staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times from 1996 to 2024. He previously served as a freelance photographer for the publication beginning in 1989. Khan started his career as a commercial photographer in 1973 in Pakistan and moved to Dubai in 1977, where he worked for an advertising agency and at a leading English newspaper. Khan’s assignments have taken across Southern California and the U.S. Internationally, he has photographed the Hajj in Saudi Arabia and war zones of the Pakistan/Afghanistan border in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for coverage of the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to semi-classical music of the Indian subcontinent and playing cricket on Sundays.

Anh Do, deputy editor for culture and talent, helps manage our internship, fellowship, recruitment and training programs. Before this job, she worked as community engagement editor, and as Metro reporter covering Asian American issues and general assignments for 11 years. Do has reported for the Seattle Times, the Orange County Register and Nguoi Viet Daily News, the largest Vietnamese publication in the U.S. Born in Saigon, she is a graduate of USC with degrees in journalism and English. Her writing on culture and trauma has won awards from Columbia University and AAJA and she received Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. In 2016, she was part of the Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attacks, and in 2024, part of the team named a Pulitzer finalist for breaking news coverage of the Monterey Park shootings. Her passion is dog rescue, having volunteered on missions around the globe.