New Delhi: According to another big and important news, this year the Pulitzer Prize for 2022 has now been announced. According to reports, this year’s award for feature photography has been given to Adnan Abidi, Sana Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave, and Danish Siddiqui, who lost his life in Afghanistan. Let us tell you that Danish died last year during the coverage of the war in Afghanistan. At that time Danish was working for the news agency Reuters in Kandahar.
In fact, according to the website of ‘The Pulitzer Prize’, Siddiqui and his associates Adnan Abidi, Sana Irshad Mattoo, and Amit Dave of news agency ‘Reuters’ have been honored with this award, which was announced on Monday. He has been honored with this award for photographs related to Covid-19 in India.
Who was Danish Siddiqui
Siddiqui (38) was assassinated in Afghanistan in July last year. He was assassinated while taking photographs of a violent clash between Afghan soldiers and the Taliban in the Spin Boldak district of Afghanistan. Siddiqui has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the second time. In 2018 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of the Rohingya refugee crisis while working with Reuters. He had photographed important events such as the wars in Afghanistan and Iran, the demonstrations in Hong Kong, and the earthquake in Nepal.
He also received the Pulitzer Prize
Let us inform you that Danish Siddiqui had obtained his Masters’s degree from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. At the same time, Marcus Yam of ‘The Los Angeles Times received the award in the ‘Breaking News Photography Category’. He took pictures showing the impact on the lives of people due to the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan.
Getty Images Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum, and John Cherry also received the Pulitzer Prize in the ‘Breaking News Photography Category’. He had taken pictures related to the attack on the US Parliament. In the year 1912, Columbia University approved a plan to award the Pulitzer Prize in various categories. It was founded by Hungarian-American photojournalist Joseph Pulitzer. The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded for the first time in 1917.
