3 India base photographers win Pulitzer Prize |
Three India-based photographers of Reuters won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for their pictures of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. They were felicitated by the Foreign Correspondents` Club of South Asia on 20 April, 2017 in New Delhi. They talked about their pictures. The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, and online journalism, literature and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) Joseph Pulitzer. Cathal McNaughton has been with Thomson Reuters for the past nine years and took on the role of Chief Photographer in India in early 2016. Adnan Abidi is a Reuters staffer in Delhi. He has been associated with wire agencies throughout his two decade-old career in photojournalism, covering a vast gamut of subjects. He had no formal training and is a self-taught. Danish Siddiqui is also a staffer. He was brought up in Delhi, but has been based in Mumbai since 2010. Danish was a television correspondent with one of India`s leading news networks. He has covered several important stories in South Asia, Middle East and Europe, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Rohingya refugees crisis, Nepal earthquake and living conditions of asylum seekers in Switzerland.
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