Reuters wins Pulitzer for intimate, devastating images of India's pandemic


  • World
  • Tuesday, 10 May 2022

A Naga Sadhu or Hindu holy man places a mask across his face before entering the Ganges river during the traditional Shahi Snan or royal dip at the Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar India April 12 2021. As coronavirus disease COVID-19 cases and deaths exploded in India in April and May hospitals ran so short of oxygen that many patients suffocated. REUTERSDanish Siddiqui SEARCH quotPulitzer India Pandemic quot FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH quotWIDER IMAGEquot FOR ALL STORIES.   TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

A 'Naga Sadhu,' or Hindu holy man, places a mask across his face before entering the Ganges river during the traditional Shahi Snan, or royal dip, at the Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar, India, April 12, 2021. As coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases and deaths exploded in India in April and May, hospitals ran so short of oxygen that many patients suffocated. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui SEARCH "Pulitzer India Pandemic " FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

(Reuters) - From hospitals, funeral pyres and remote villages to a Himalayan hillside, car parks and temples, Reuters photographers produced coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in India that captured the spread of the disease and its remorseless toll.

The Reuters team won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for pictures balancing "intimacy and devastation while offering viewers a heightened sense of place", the jury said.

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