: In pictures: Danish Siddiqui photos that powerfully captured critical moments in the India story #IndiaNEWS Award-winning Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was killed on Friday while covering

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In pictures: Danish Siddiqui photos that powerfully captured critical moments in the India story #IndiaNEWS
Award-winning Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was killed on Friday while covering clashes between Afghanistan security forces and Taliban insurgents in Kandahar city, the news agency said. Siddiqui, who was in his early 40s, was the chief of Reuters Pictures multimedia team in India. Over the last year, he powerfully captured critical moments in India – tensions during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in 2020, the North East Delhi riots, the migrant workers exodus after the imposition of the countrywide Covid lockdown and the mass cremations during the devastating second wave of the pandemic in April and May.He had covered many other important events, including the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the Battle of Mosul in 2017, the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar and the situation of asylum seekers in Switzerland.Siddiqui and his colleague Adnan Abidi were part of the Reuters team that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for images of the Rohingya refugee crisis. “You can see the helplessness and the exhaustion of the woman, paired with the action that is happening in the background with the smoke,� he said about the photo. “This was the frame I wanted to show the world.�In an interview to Scroll.in in 2018, the photographer said an image “should draw people and tell them the whole...Read more

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