The freelance photographer from Antwerp, Belgium, moved to Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2015. In the summer of 2021, he was present when the Taliban entered the Afghan capital and the last of the U.S. troops left. Huylebroek was part of the New York Times team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their investigation of civilian casualties from U.S. Air strikes. He has produced work in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Ukraine, Moldova and the Balkans.
