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Rick Egan

Visual Journalist

Rick has been a staff photographer at The Tribune since 1984. Previous to The Tribune, he was photo editor at the Daily Universe Newspaper at BYU and worked at The Sun Advocate in Price, Utah.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Members of SunTrapp Workers United (SWU) and their allies picket in front of The SunTrapp in Salt Lake City on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. A week later, on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, the bar announced it was closing, citing the financial impact of the protests. Workers had asked the bar to voluntarily recognize the union and alleged they had been retaliated against by management.

As historic LGBTQ+ bar closes in SLC, owner and union organizers say they both hope to find ‘a path forward’

By Brock Marchant | Sheila McCann | Rick Egan | November 1, 2025, 10:11 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) People raise Charlie Kirk signs during the Turning Point event in Logan on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025.

From Kirk tributes to anger at Cox, here are the messages people were wearing as Turning Point returned to Utah

By Rick Egan | Emily R. Anderson | Trevor Christensen | October 1, 2025, 8:16 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) "Richard III" at the Englestad Shakespeare Theatre at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, on Saturday, July 3, 2021.

Why Utahns don’t have to go far to see great Shakespeare

By Rick Egan | September 3, 2025, 5:55 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Pioneer wagons at the Days of '47 Parade in Salt Lake City on Thursday, July 24, 2025.

PHOTOS: See the Days of ‘47 parade celebrating Pioneer Day in Salt Lake City

By Megan Banta | Rick Egan | July 25, 2025, 12:04 a.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) People pass by a shelter along the banks of the Jordan River in Salt Lake City, Monday, March 17, 2025. The Tribune visited a group of shelters three times across two weeks to see the effect cleanups have on the environment and the people living there.

‘They took my house again’ — What a homeless camp cleanup in SLC looks like, from beginning to end

By Tony Semerad | Chris Samuels | Rick Egan | April 2, 2025, 3:19 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A girl named Elaph, 5, holds a flag as Syrian Americans celebrate the liberation of Syria and the end of the Assad regime's tyranny, on the steps of the Capitol, on Saturday, Dec 14, 2024.

Syrian Americans celebrate fall of Assad regime at Utah rally

By Rick Egan | December 16, 2024, 6:03 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Emily Ewing from Boston floats in the Great Salt Lake on Monday, July 29, 2024.

Can you swim in the Great Salt Lake?

By Rick Egan | September 7, 2024, 6:02 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The sun rises above Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, in Utah's Great Basin Desert, on Tuesday, June 18, 2024.

Sun Tunnels: Where Utahns experience the summer solstice like no where else

By Rick Egan | Palak Jayswal | June 21, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Dayton Flyers pep band performs during the Second Round of the mens basketball NCAA Tournament at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, March 23, 2024.

PHOTOS: Check out all the action on the second day of March Madness in Salt Lake City

By Rick Egan | Bethany Baker | March 24, 2024, 2:43 a.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Samford Bulldogs take on the Kansas Jayhawks in the First Round of the men's basketball NCAA Tournament at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, March 21, 2024.

PHOTOS: Take a look at the first day of March Madness in Salt Lake City

By Bethany Baker | Rick Egan | March 22, 2024, 7:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Models walk the runway during the Women of the World annual fashion show on Wednesday, March 6, 2024.

A Utah fashion show highlights women and cultures from around the world

By Palak Jayswal | Rick Egan | March 9, 2024, 1:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Carolyn Phippen announces that she is running for U.S. Senate, at Draper Historic Park, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023.

Carolyn Phippen, a former Mike Lee staffer, launches bid for U.S. Senate

By Bryan Schott | Rick Egan | November 1, 2023, 8:18 p.m.

Rio Grande confrontations show tensions rising among Salt Lake City’s homeless

By Paighten Harkins | Rick Egan | January 14, 2023, 7:15 p.m.

Could legal homeless camps help in Salt Lake City? We visited one in Denver to see how they work.

By Rick Egan | Blake Apgar | December 10, 2022, 2:00 p.m.

Photos: A year in Utah with an all-girl, international Boy Scouts of America troop

By Becky Jacobs | Rick Egan | August 15, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

Rick Egan: Sharing the story in pictures

By Rick Egan | December 28, 2021, 1:00 p.m.

See photos: ‘Gratitude Day Dinner’ served to SLC homeless community

By Rick Egan | Kolbie Peterson | November 26, 2021, 12:11 a.m.

‘Unofficial’ LGBTQ Pride march at BYU draws hundreds

By Rick Egan | June 29, 2021, 8:17 p.m.

Daybreak community embraces Soap Box Derby as vintage rite of Americana

By Rick Egan | May 10, 2021, 3:57 p.m.

Taylor Farm Restored

By Rick Egan | April 23, 2021, 2:44 a.m.