'I couldn't say no': KL-born Pulitzer winner took up photojournalism on a dare


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PETALING JAYA: Years ago, an aerospace engineering student Marcus Yam laughed when a design director of a renowned daily news company in New York reached out and asked if he ought to consider photojournalism as a career, insisting that he had something "special".

"I thought my future was to continue as an engineer, buy a boat and go fishing but he (then Buffalo News design director John Davis) thought otherwise and challenged me.

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