Mattoo was among the winners of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. She was facilitated for her work documenting the second wave of covid-19.
New Delhi: Pulitzer Prize awardee Sanna Irshad Mattoo was stopped at the Delhi airport as she was about to board a flight to France on Saturday.
The Kashmiri photojournalist was flying out for a book launch and photography exhibition as one of the 10 winners of the Serendipity Arles Grant.
Mattoo said on Twitter that despite securing a visa she was stopped at the immigration desk. She was told she would not be able to travel overseas but was not given a reason as to why.
“I was scheduled to travel from Delhi to Paris today for a book launch and photography exhibition as one of 10 award winners of the Serendipity Arles grant 2020. Despite procuring a French visa, I was stopped at the immigration desk at Delhi airport.”The tweet read.
The tweet further said, “I was not given any reason but told I would not be able to travel internationally.”
I was not give any reason but told I would not be able to travel internationally. (2/2)
— Sanna Irshad Mattoo (@mattoosanna) July 2, 2022
Mattoo was among the winners of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. She was facilitated for her work documenting the second wave of covid-19.
Mattoo shared the prestigious award with Reuters photojournalists Adnan Abidi, Amit Dev, and Danish Siddiqui. Siddiqui was killed while covering the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. The four-member Reuters team got the prize for images of COVID’s toll in India that balanced intimacy and devastation while offering viewers a heightened sense of place.
The Pulitzer Prize for feature photography is awarded to Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and the late Danish Siddiqui of Reuters for the coverage of COVID in India https://t.co/qiFwmaxrLM pic.twitter.com/R0KjZVwx0h
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 9, 2022
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