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
Manisha Bashu presses her father's chest, who is suffering from breathing problems, after he fell unconscious while receiving oxygen support for free at a Gurudwara (Sikh temple), amidst the spread of Covid-19, in Ghaziabad, India, on April 30, 2021.
Abidi started his career in 1977 as a darkroom assistant. An Indian Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, he has previously worked at the Pan-Asia News Agency (PANA), Indo Photo News, and Press Trust of India. Abidi has been part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning packages for photography, the Rohingya exodus in 2018 and the Hong Kong protests in 2020.
