Reporting on Covid-19 horrors: Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave, the late Danish Siddiqui awarded the Pulitzer
The winners of the Pulitzer Prize 2022 were announced Monday, May 9. The Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917, by the provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist. There are 22 Pulitzer categories, and the awards are given to honor extraordinary work in journalism and the arts. In the category of 'feature photography', four photographers, Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and the late Danish Siddiqui of Reuters India were declared winners, for their extensive reportage on Covid-19 outbreak in India
The grounds are prepared for a mass cremation of Covid-19 victims in New Delhi, India, on April 28, 2021. Picture taken with a drone.
Danish Siddiqui was the chief photojournalist of Reuters. Siddiqui had previously worked as a correspondent for the Hindustan Times and TV Today Network. In 2018, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, as part of a team of photographers, for documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis. On July 16, 2021, he was killed while covering a clash between the Afghan security forces and the Taliban forces in Spin Boldak, near the Pakistan border.
