Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who died during an assignment in Afghanistan, has been posthumously awarded as the RedInk ‘Journalist of the Year’ for 2020 by the Mumbai Press Club.
Chief Justice of India N V Ramana on Wednesday presented the annual ‘RedInk Awards for Excellence in Journalism’, in a virtual event.
Siddiqui was awarded “for his spectrum of investigative and impactful news photography”.
The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Indian photojournalist working for Reuters was killed on duty in Kandahar, Afghanistan in July this year. Siddiqui was embedded with the Afghan Special Forces covering the ongoing crisis in the country.
In 2018, he became the first Indian alongside colleague Adnan Abidi to win the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography as part of the Photography staff of Reuters for documenting the Rohingya Refugee Crisis. A photograph he clicked during the 2020 Delhi Riots was featured as one of the defining photographs of 2020 by Reuters.
“He was a man with a magical eye and was rightly regarded as one of the foremost photojournalists of this era. If a picture can tell a thousand words, his photos were novels,” Chief Justice Ramana said while paying tributes to the scribe.
In the 9th year now, the RedInk Awards was instituted by the Mumbai Press Club to promote best practices among journalists and encourage good quality writing, fair play and high ethical standards.
(With PTI Inputs)
