Danish Siddiqui, a slain photojournalist, is one of four Indians to get the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in 2022.
According to The Pulitzer Prizes website, Siddiqui and his colleagues Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, and Amit Dave of the Reuters news agency won the award for “pictures of Covid’s toll in India that combined intimacy with destruction, while affording viewers a heightened feeling of place.”
The judges moved their work from the breaking news photography category.
Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Photography: A ‘Naga Sadhu,’ or Hindu holy man, places a mask across his face before entering the Ganges river during the traditional Shahi Snan, or royal dip, at the Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar, India, April 12, 2021. (Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)
Last year, Siddiqui, 38, died while on assignment in Afghanistan. In July of last year, the award-winning journalist was slain while documenting skirmishes between Afghan army and the Taliban in Kandahar’s Spin Boldak region.
Siddiqui has already received the Pulitzer Prize for the second time. In 2018, he and the rest of the Reuters crew received the prestigious award for their coverage of the Rohingya crisis. He covered the Afghanistan war, the Hong Kong riots, and other key events in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe extensively.
Residences surround the grounds of a crematorium during a mass cremation for victims of the coronavirus disease in New Delhi on April 22, 2021. Reuters/Danish Siddiqui
Siddiqui received an economics degree from Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi. In 2007, he graduated from Jamia’s AJK Mass Communication Research Centre with a degree in mass communication.
A female patient suffering from the coronavirus disease is attended to by hospital staff of the Holy Family hospital in New Delhi on April 29, 2021. Reuters/Danish Siddiqui
Urns containing ashes after final rites of people, including those who died from the coronavirus disease, await immersion due to a national lockdown, at a crematorium in New Delhi on May 6, 2021. Reuters/Danish Siddiqui
The Washington Post which won the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism was recognised for its extensive reporting – published in a sophisticated interactive series that found numerous problems and failures in political systems and security before, during, and after the January 6 riots.
In the Breaking News photography category, Marcus Yam of the Los Angeles Times won for “raw and urgent photos of the US exit from Afghanistan that reflect the human cost of the country’s momentous transformation.”
The judges moved Yam’s work from Feature Photography to Documentary Photography
Getty Images’ Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum, and Jon Cherry won the award for “extensive and consistently fascinating photographs of the attack on the US Capitol” in the Breaking News photography category.
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