Russian photographer wins Pulitzer Prize
Sergey Ponomarev, Migrants arrive by boat to the Greek island of Lesbos, 2015. (Image: The New York Times / Pulitzer)
19 April 2016
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Elise Morton
Russian photographer Sergey Ponomarev has won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.
Ponomarev received the prize together with his colleagues from The New York Times — Mauricio Lima, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter — for their work centering on the struggle of Syrian refugees attempting to travel to the European Union.
According to the Pulitzer Prize board, they won the award “for photographs that captured the resolve of refugees, the perils of their journeys and the struggle of host countries to take them in”.
The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.
Source: Moscow Times