Meet Pulitzer Prize Winners in Photography in Guangzhou

November 23, 2024

A very interesting meeting with four photographs and laureates of the Pulitzer Prizes took place in Guangzhou. I was one of those invited to this meeting and I want to share with you the photographs from that meeting and the emotions. Guests included Nick Ut, Ringo Chiu, Irfan Khan and Michael Nelson.

Meeting organizers: https://www.newsgd.com/

Legends

Nick Ut, Ringo Chiu, Irfan Khan and Michael Nelson.

Photo by Yukophotography

Meet Pulitzer Prize Winners in Photography in Guangzhou | Nick Ut, Ringo Chiu, Irfan Khan and Michael Nelson in China

Photo by Yukophotography

Meet Pulitzer Prize Winners in Photography in Guangzhou. 中国街头摄影 | The Streets of China Through My Eyes | 深圳

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Nick Ut, Ringo Chiu, Irfan Khan and Michael Nelson photo by Yukophotography

Ringo Chiu

Ringo Chiu, also known as “The Machine, ” is a distinguished photojournalist, honored with the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography and recognized as a 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in the same category. Notably, he is the first Chinese-born photojournalist to receive the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in photography.

National Press Photographers Association’s (NPPA) 2021 Best of Photojournalism, First Place in Sports Feature.
Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles' (PPAGLA) 2019 and 2021 Photojournalist of the Year (POY).
Los Angeles Press Club’s 2014, 2017, 2020, 2021 and 2024 Southern California Photojournalist of the Year (POY).
2021 Award of Excellence in Editorial by Communication Arts and Photography (Magazine).
Canada’s Photojournalism Photography Award Winner in Applied Arts Magazine Annual Contest 2007.
Best Hong Kong News Photography in 1992, 1993, and 1994.”

Photo by Yukophotography

Nick Ut

Of the tens of thousands of photographs documenting the horrors of the Vietnam War, perhaps none is more memorable and iconic than the shot which has come to be known as the “Napalm Girl”, captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut.

It was in 1973 that Nick Ut captured a photograph that would make him famous and win him the most coveted honor in photojournalism, the Pulitzer Prize. The image shows a naked and screaming Vietnamese girl running with her arms spread wide. Her face is a study in agony. Her body has been scorched with by the burning bomb chemical, napalm, and she flees a scene of smoky chaos in the background.

Irfan Khan

Irfan Khan was a staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times from 1996 to 2024. He previously served as a freelance photographer for the publication beginning in 1989. Khan started his career as a commercial photographer in 1973 in Pakistan and moved to Dubai in 1977, where he worked for an advertising agency and at a leading English newspaper. Khan’s assignments have taken across Southern California and the U.S. Internationally, he has photographed the Hajj in Saudi Arabia and war zones of the Pakistan/Afghanistan border in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for coverage of the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to semi-classical music of the Indian subcontinent and playing cricket on Sundays.

Credit: www.latimes.com/people/irfan-khan