Ernie Paniccioli
Ernie Paniccioli is an American photographer of hip hop culture who lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was inducted into the Hip Hop Hall of Fame in 2014.
A Cree Native American, Paniccioli grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Paniccioli's photography of hip hop began in the 1970s with shots of graffiti in New York while working for the telephone company.
He was the chief photographer for Word Up! Magazine beginning in 1987, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, Life, Rolling Stone, Spin, Ebony, and The Source.
Hip hop journalist Kevin Powell encouraged Paniccioli to make a book and in 2002 Who Shot Ya? : Three Decades of Hip-Hop Photography was published, followed by Hip-Hop at the End of the World: The Photography of Brother Ernie in 2018. He donated his photography archive to Cornell University's Hip Hop Collection in 2012 and it was made available online in August 2020.