Taking the Pulitizer Prize Winning Photo
Adrees Latif posted on Reuters Photograhpers Blog about taking the Pulitizer Prize winning photo of Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai being shot and killed by government troops in Myanmar/Burma. It is an interesting story.
Two minutes later, the shooting started. My eye caught a person flying backwards through the air. Instinctively, I started photographing, capturing four frames of the man on his back.
The entry point of the bullet is clear in the first frame, with a soldier in flip flops standing over the man and pointing a rifle. In the second frame, the man is reaching over to try and film.
More shots rang out. I flinched before getting off two more frames – one of the man pointing the camera at the soldier, and one of his face contorted in pain.
Beyond him, the crowd scattered before the advancing soldier. The whole incident, which went on to reverberate around the world, was over in two seconds.
Here is a higher resolution copy Latif’s photo.
Update 4/16/2008: Reuters has published a video featuring Adrees Latif reading the statement mentioned above along with more photos from the prize winning collection.
foreign affairs &photos posted by: dan @ 15 Apr 2008 22:16