Danish Siddiqui

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Danish Siddiqui at the 2018 Pulitzer Prize ceremony

Ahmad Danish Siddiqui (born May 19, 1983 in New Delhi ; died July 16, 2021 in Spin Boldak , Afghanistan ) was an Indian photojournalist residing in Mumbai . He received a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 as part of the Reuters Photo Staff . In 2021, he was killed while reporting a clash between Afghan security forces and the Islamist Taliban near a border crossing with Pakistan in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan .

Life

Danish Siddiqui studied at the Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi. In 2007 he graduated with a degree in mass communication from the AJK Mass Communication Research Center at Jamia.

Danish Siddiqui began his career as a television news correspondent. He switched to photojournalism and joined the international news agency Reuters as an intern in 2010 . Since then, Siddiqui has reported on, among other things, the Battle of Mosul (2016-17), the earthquake in Nepal in April 2015, the refugee crisis caused by the Rohingya genocide , the protests in Hong Kong (2019-2020), the unrest in Delhi (2020) and the COVID-19 pandemic in South Asia, the Middle East and Europe. In 2018 he became the first Indian to win the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography alongside his colleague Adnan Abidi as part of the Reuters Photo Staff for documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis. A photo he took during the 2020 Delhi Riots was named one of the defining photos of 2020 by Reuters. He temporarily headed the Reuters Pictures team in India.

Siddiqui was killed along with a senior Afghan officer while reporting on fighting between Afghan forces and Taliban militants in Spin Boldak , Kandahar , on July 16, 2021 . An Afghan official said he was killed in a Taliban crossfire.

Siddiqui lived in Mumbai . He was married to a German. The marriage had two children.

Individual evidence

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