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
A healthcare worker checks the temperature of a woman inside her hut during a Covid-19 vaccination drive, at a brick kiln at Kavitha village on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, on April 8, 2021.
Dave's career started as a photographer with the state’s magazine and at a local newspaper before he joined the Indian Express. A photojournalist with three decades of experience, Dave joined Reuters in 2002. He has extensively covered riots, the aftermath of the earthquake in Gujarat, droughts, and the Indian Ocean tsunami in South India.
