[News] Danish Siddiqui: Remembering India's Pulitzer prize-winning photographer

[Mr.Talha]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57862610

 

 

Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was killed on Friday while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters near a border crossing with Pakistan.

Working for Reuters since 2010, Siddiqui covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Rohingya refugees crisis, the Hong Kong protests and Nepal earthquakes.

Siddiqui was part of a Reuters team to win the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis.

 

 

In one of his last pictures, Siddiqui photographed a member of Afghan special forces firing at Taliban fighters at a check post in Afghanistan's Kandahar province. Siddiqui was embedded as a journalist since earlier this week with Afghan special forces in Kandahar.

 

 

Siddiqui extensively covered the brutal second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in April and May as it ripped through India's cities and villages. In this picture published on 15 April, Covid-19 patients are treated at Delhi's largest Covid hospital.

 

 

Siddiqui's pictures of mass cremations of Covid-19 victims at funeral grounds in Delhi next door to po[CENSORED]ted neighbourhoods went viral.

The funeral pyres burning round-the-clock and cremation grounds running out of space told the story of a death toll unseen and unacknowledged in official data.