Kyōichi Sawada

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Sawada in front of his picture “Flee to Safety”, press photo from 1965

Kyōichi Sawada ( Japanese 沢 田 教 一 , Sawada Kyōichi ; * February 22, 1936 , † October 28, 1970 ) was a Japanese photographer .

He worked for United Press International (UPI) and won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1966 for his 1965 war photographs during the Vietnam War . Two further photos from the Vietnam War were named “ Press Photo of the Year ” in 1965 and 1966 .

“Flee to Safety”, the photo from 1965, shows a Vietnamese mother with her children wading through a river to avoid an air raid by the US armed forces. The 1966 photo shows US soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division dragging a dead National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam fighter behind their vehicle to a burial site after several Viet Cong battalions against US and Australian units in a night attack Tân Bình, Hồ Chí Minh City had been killed.

While on an assignment in Cambodia , Sawada and Frank Frosch, heads of the UPI office, were shot south of Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rouge in late October 1970 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ World Press Photo 1965 at worldpressphoto.org, accessed April 8, 2014
  2. ↑ World Press Photo 1966 at worldpressphoto.org, accessed April 8, 2014
  3. ↑ A Tribute to War Photographers at rfa.org, accessed April 8, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Sawada, Kyōichi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 沢 田 教 一 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1936
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1970
Place of death Cambodia