Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who was killed in July covering the Afghan war for Reuters news agency, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the feature photography category for his reportage of Covid-19 in India.
Siddiqui, who worked with Reuters bureau in India and was on an assignment in Afghanistan, is among four Indians honoured with the prestigious award.
His colleagues, Adnan Abidi Sanna, Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave have also been honoured with the coveted prize.
The Pulitzer committee, that awards achievers in newspaper, online and magazine journalism, literature and musical composition, announced the list of this year's winners on Monday.
They said they were moved by the “balanced intimacy” of the work of the photojournalists while covering the pandemic.
Mr Siddiqui was 38 when he was killed while covering clashes between Afghan troops and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district in Kandahar city, near the Pakistan border in July.
He was the chief photographer for the agency in the Indian bureau and had extensively covered global issues and crises, including wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Hong Kong protests and Nepal earthquakes.
He was known for his investigative and impactful photography.
This is Mr Siddiqui’s second Pulitzer prize. He won the prestigious prize for feature photography in 2018 as part of the Reuters team for their coverage of the Rohingya crisis.
In March, his bereaved parents filed a complaint against the Taliban with the International Criminal Court and demanded a probe, saying their son died in a targeted killing .
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A military transport plane departs overhead as Afghans hoping to leave the country wait outside Kabul airport on August 23, 2021. By Marcus Yam. Los Angeles Times/EPA -
A military transport plane flies over relatives and neighbours of the Ahmadi family as they gather around an incinerated husk of a vehicle destroyed by a US drone strike in Kabul. By Marcus Yam. Los Angeles Times/EPA -
Anti-Taliban protesters mark Afghanistan's independence day by attempting to hoist the red, green and black national banner. By Marcus Yam. Los Angeles Times/EPA -
Taliban fighters pray next to young Afghans outside a local mosque for evening prayers in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 26, 2021. By Marcus Yam. Los Angeles Times/EPA -
After the stroke of midnight, Taliban fighters from the Fateh Zwak unit storm into Hamid Karzai International Airport, wearing American-made uniforms and brandishing American M4 and M16 rifles and riding US pick-up trucks on August 31, 2021. By Marcus Yam. Los Angeles Times/EPA -
Sea surface cleaning vessels and barrier-laying boats clean up sea snot, a thick slimy layer of the organic matter also known as marine mucilage, which spread through the Sea of Marmara threatening marine life and the fishing industry, in Istanbul, Turkey on June 15, 2021. By Umit Bektas, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Feature Photography. Reuters -
A woman prays on the banks of the polluted river Yamuna on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, on November 8, 2021. By Anushree Fadnavis, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Feature Photography. Reuters -
A man engulfed by a swarm of desert locusts stands on top of a hill near Nanyuki, Kenya, on January 30, 2021. By Baz Ratner, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Feature Photography. Reuters -
Manisha Bashu presses the chest of her father, who was having difficulty breathing, after he became unconscious while receiving oxygen support amid the spread of coronavirus disease in Ghaziabad, India, on April 30, 2021. By Adnan Abidi, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Photography. Reuters -
Family members embrace as they mourn a male relative who died from the coronavirus disease, during his cremation ceremony in New Delhi on April 21, 2021. By Adnan Abidi, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Photography. Reuters -
A man sits next to his wife as she receives rehydration fluid at a makeshift clinic during a surge of the coronavirus disease in Parsaul village, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, on May 22, 2021. By Adnan Abidi, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Photography. Reuters -
The body of a person who died from the coronavirus disease lies on a funeral pyre during a mass cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi, India on May 1, 2021. By Adnan Abidi, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Photography. Reuters -
Ashish Kashyap and Naman Sharma, volunteers at a nonprofit organisation, carry a bag containing unclaimed ashes of victims of the coronavirus disease at a crematorium in New Delhi. By Adnan Abidi, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Photography. Reuters -
A healthcare worker checks the temperature of a woman inside her hut during a coronavirus disease vaccination drive in Kavitha village on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, on April 8, 2021. By Amit Dave, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Photography. Reuters -
A healthcare worker administers a dose of CoviShield, a coronavirus disease vaccine, to a shepherd during a vaccination drive in Lidderwat, in India Kashmir's Anantnag district, on June 10, 2021. By Sanna Irshad Mattoo,Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Photography. Reuters -
This photo by Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui, provided by Columbia University, shows a 'Naga Sadhu,' or Hindu holy man, placing a mask across his face before entering the Ganges river during the traditional Shahi Snan, at the Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar, India, April 12, 2021. Reuters photographers Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and the late Danish Siddiqui of Reuters were awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Price for Feature Photography, Monday, May 9, 2022, for images of COVID's toll in India that balanced intimacy and devastation, while offering viewers a heightened sense of place. (Danish Siddiqui / Reuters via AP) -
Residences surround the grounds of a crematorium during a mass cremation for victims of the coronavirus disease in New Delhi. By Danish Siddiqui, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Photography. Reuters -
Fishermen bring in their catch from a lake in front of a power plant of the State Development and Investment Corporation outside Tianjin, China, on October 14, 2021. By Thomas Peter, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Feature Photography. Reuters -
Theophilus Charles, 70, sits inside his house which was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ida in Houma, Louisiana, US, on August 30, 2021. By Adrees Latif, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Feature Photography. Reuters -
Lava is seen through a kitchen window in El Paso following the eruption of a volcano on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain, on September 28, 2021. By Jon Nazca, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Feature Photography. Reuters -
The melting Sermeq glacier, about 80 kilometres south of Nuuk, is photographed in this aerial over Greenland on September 11, 2021. By Hannibal Hanschke, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Feature Photography. Reuters -
A polar bear rests after sparring with another bear near the Hudson Bay community of Churchill, in Manitoba, Canada on November 20, 2021. By Carlos Osorio, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Feature Photography. Reuters -
A home is reflected in floodwaters in the Yarrow neighbourhood after rainstorms caused flooding and landslides in Chilliwack, Canada on November 20, 2021. By Jesse Winter, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Feature Photography. Reuters -
A man looks at the body of a dead humpback whale, measuring 15.7 meters long, according to El Salvador's Ministry of Environment, after it washed ashore in Las Flores beach in La Libertad, on November 5, 2021. By Jose Cabezas, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Feature Photography. Reuters -
A woman carrying a child and belongings wades through floodwaters in Zhengzhou, in China's Henan province, on July 23, 2021. By Aly Song, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Feature Photography. Reuters -
Vitoria Rocha, 81, holds a picture of her parents which she found in the rubble of her home of nearly 40 years, after it was destroyed by floods in Itambe, Brazil on December 28, 2021. By Amanda Perobelli, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Feature Photography. Reuters -
Firefighters spray water from a fire train, designed to fight wildfires, on hot spots along the tracks over Rock Creek Bridge in Plumas National Forest, California, on July 15, 2021. By David Swanson, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Feature Photography. Reuters -
A group of volunteer divers, helped by the Coastal Resources Research Centre and the Thai Navy, lift abandoned fishing nets covering coral reefs in a protected area of Ko Losin, Thailand on June 19, 2021. By Jorge Silva, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Feature Photography. Reuters -
A view from a damaged movie theatre after a devastating tornado ripped through Mayfield in the US on December 16, 2021. By Cheney Orr, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Feature Photography. Reuters
