Late Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, killed by Taliban, wins 2nd Pulitzer

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Photo journalists killed by Denmark Siddiqui are among the four respected Indians with the prestigious Pulitzer Prize 2022 in the feature photography category.

Siddiqui and his colleagues Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave from the Reuters news agency won an award, announced on Monday, for “pictures of Covid victims in India who balanced intimacy and destruction, while offering viewers of high places”, According to the Pulitzer prize website.

Photo journalist killed by Denmark Siddiqui is among four respected Indians with prestigious Pulitzer 2022 prizes in the feature photography category.

Siddiqui, 38, was on duty in Afghanistan last year when he died. The award winner was killed last July when covering a clash between Afghan and Taliban troops in the Spin Boldak District in the City of Kandahar.

This is for the second time Siddiqui won the Pulitzer prize. He was honored by the prestigious award in 2018 as part of the Reuters team for their coverage of the Rohingya crisis. He has widely covered the Afghan conflict, Hong Kong’s protests and other major events in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

Siddiqui graduated with an economic degree from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. He has a degree in mass communication from the AJK mass communication research center in Jamia in 2007.

He began his career as a television news correspondent, turned to photo journalism, and joined Reuters as an internship in 2010.

Marcus Yam from the Los Angeles Times pocketed awards in the category of news photography that violated “for raw and urgent images of US departure from Afghanistan who captured human costs from historical changes in the country”.

Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum and Jon Cherry from Getty Images also won awards in the Breaking News Photography category for their comprehensive and consistent attack photos in the US capitol “.

The Washington Post pocketed Pulitzer prizes in public service journalism for its coverage of the January 6 rebellion in the US Capitol.

According to the award committee, the newspaper “carefully told and clearly presented attacks on Washington on January 6, 2021, giving people with a comprehensive and rash understanding of one of the darkest days of the country”.

The Pulitzer Council gave a special quote to Ukrainian journalists for “their courage, endurance, and commitment to honest reporting during (the President) of Vladimir Putin’s cruel invasion to their country and his propagandal war in Russia”.

Apart from the bombing, kidnapping, work, and even death in their ranks, they have survived in their efforts to provide an accurate picture of terrible reality, conducting honor to Ukraine and journalists around the world,” the committee said.

Pulitzer prize was founded by Joseph Pulitzer, a journalist and publisher of the Hungarian-American newspaper, who left money to Columbia University after his death in 1911. Some of his legacy was used to find a journalism school in 1912 and established the Pulitzer prize The Pulitzer, the first time given in 1917.