On World Photography Day 2021: Some Images By Danish Siddiqui Who Was Killed In Afghanistan
Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize winner Indian photojournalist who worked for Reuters news agency, has been killed in Afghanistan while covering the fierce fighting between Afghan troops and the Taliban militants in Kandahar. Danish Siddiqui was covering the situation in Kandahar over the last few days.
While the news of Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Danish Siddiqui's death - while he was on an assignment in Afghanistan - has shocked his Indian and international colleagues and friends, it has also broken the hearts of many aspiring photojournalist who looked up to his work for inspiration.
Siddiqui, who worked for Reuters news agency, has been killed in Afghanistan while covering the fierce fighting between Afghan troops and the Taliban militants in Kandahar. He was covering the situation in Kandahar over the last few days.
His work was keenly followed by many as he was able to capture the sufferings of the people caught up in communal violence, mass murders as well as natural disasters.
Recently, he captured the images of mass cremation of dead bodies of COVID-19 victims. His images of Communal riots in Delhi, protest against CAA/NRC went viral on the internet. His coverage of the plight of Rohingya people in Myanmar was rewarded with Pulitzer Prize.
In an interview with Indiatimes after winning the award, Siddiqui said, "¡°This was perhaps the toughest assignment, I have been a part of. I have covered wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, natural calamities in India in Uttrakhand and Nepal, but Rohingya crisis was the toughest to cover because I could see their world being destroyed with fire just the across the river,"
He considered his job to be that of a historian as well. ¡°In a way, I am a historian as well, that¡¯s why I have saved all those emotions exhibited by the people in front of my camera for documentation,¡± he told Indiatimes.
Graduated from Jamia Millia Islamia in Economics and get a degree in Mass Communication from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia in 2007. Siddiqui started his career as a television news correspondent, switched to photojournalism, and joined Reuters as an intern in 2010. Take a look here some of the best shots taken by Danish Siddiqui:
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