Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo has won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize 2022 in the feature photography category.
Mattoo won the award alongside slain Reuters journalist Danish Siddiqui, Adnan Abidi and Amit Dave.
According to The Pulitzer Prizes website they 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”.
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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.
Sanna, a resident of Srinagar who works with Reuters had become Magnum Foundation’s ‘Photography and Social Justice Fellows in 2021.
Her works were published in various international and national media publications.
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.
Earlier, three photojournalists from Jammu and Kashmir Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and Channi Anand had won the prestigious Pulitizer Prize 2020 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.