Srinagar- Kashmiri Photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo has won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize 2022 alongside the Reuters team in the feature photography category.
Sanna alongside the Reuters team including late Danish Siddiqui. Adnan Abidi and Amit Dave won the award, announced on Monday, for “images of COVID’s toll in India that balanced intimacy and devastation, while offering viewers a heightened sense of place”, according to The Pulitzer Prizes website.
Their work was moved from the breaking news photography category by the judges.
“Congratulations to @adnanabidi, @mattoosanna, @AmitDav46549614, the family and friends of the late, @dansiddiqui, and @Reuters. #Pulitzer,” Pulitzer announced on twitter.
Congratulations to @adnanabidi, @mattoosanna, @AmitDav46549614, the family and friends of the late @dansiddiqui and @Reuters. #Pulitzer pic.twitter.com/NGI0NiBsQT
— The Pulitzer Prizes (@PulitzerPrizes) May 9, 2022
Sanna, who holds Master’s in Convergent Journalism from the Central University of Kashmir, has her work published in international media outlets, including Al Jazeera, TIME and TRT World. She has also done a fellowship with the prestigious Magnum Foundation in 2021.
This is what Sanna’s Pulitzer introduction says, “Sanna Irshad Mattoo is a photojournalist and documentary photographer based in Kashmir. Ranging from groundbreaking news to in-depth storytelling, her work concentrates on depicting the tension between the seeming ordinariness of life and the stark symbols of a menacing militarised milieu of Kashmir. Her work has been published in newspapers and magazines around the world and has been screened and exhibited in various exhibitions and festivals. She presently contributes to Reuters as a Multimedia Journalist.
Danish Siddiqui, 38, was on assignment in Afghanistan last year when he died. The award-winning journalist was killed in July last while covering clashes between Afghan troops and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar city.
In 2020, three photojournalists from Jammu and Kashmir, Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and Channi Anand had won the prestigious Pulitizer Prize in feature photography.
The Pulitzer Prizes were established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher, who left money to Columbia University upon his death in 1911. A portion of his bequest was used to found the School of Journalism in 1912 and establish the Pulitzer Prizes, which were first awarded in 1917.
The 19-member Pulitzer Board is composed of leading journalists and news executives from media outlets across the US, as well as five academics or persons in the arts. The dean of Columbia’s journalism school and the administrator of the prizes are non-voting members. The chair rotates annually to the most senior member or members.
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