Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, May 10: Danish Siddiqui, the slain photojournalist, is one of four Indians to get the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in 2022.
According to The Pulitzer Prizes website, Siddiqui and his colleagues Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, and Amit Dave of the Reuters news agency won the award “for images of COVID’s toll in India that balanced intimacy and devastation, while offering viewers a heightened sense of place. (Moved from Breaking News Photography by the jury.)”
Last year, Siddiqui (38) died while on assignment in Afghanistan. In July of last year, the award-winning journalist was slain while documenting skirmishes between Afghan army and the Taliban in Kandahar’s Spin Boldak region.
Siddiqui has already received the Pulitzer Prize for the second time. In 2018, he and the rest of the Reuters crew received the prestigious award for their coverage of the Rohingya crisis. He covered the Afghanistan war, the Hong Kong riots, and other key events in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe extensively.
Siddiqui earned an economics degree from Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi. In 2007, he graduated from Jamia’s AJK Mass Communication Research Centre with a degree in mass communication. He began his career as a television news correspondent, then transitioned to photojournalism before interning at Reuters in 2010.
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In the Breaking News photography category, Marcus Yam of the Los Angeles Times won “for raw and urgent images of the US departure from Afghanistan that capture the human cost of the historic change in the country.”
Getty Images’ Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum, and Jon Cherry won the award “comprehensive and consistently riveting photos of the attack on the US Capitol.”
For its coverage of the January 6 insurgency in the US Capitol, the Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism.
Apart from these, the board awarded a special citation to the journalists of Ukraine for their “courage, endurance, and commitment to truthful reporting during (President) Vladimir Putin’s ruthless invasion of their country and his propaganda war in Russia”.
