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Michel du Cille
1956-2014
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Washington Post Photographer
"Michel had been witness to history and to human struggle and, as always, his photographs constituted storytelling of uncommon power."
-- Washington Post publisher Frederick J. Ryan, Jr.
Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist and three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his powerful images of human struggle, died of an apparent heart attack while covering the Ebola crisis in Liberia. He was 58.
Du Cille spent weeks in West Africa this year dedicated to exposing the human suffering caused by the deadly Ebola outbreak, pictured above. He collapsed there while returning on foot from a reporting assignment in a rural village in Liberia.
During his career, he reported from some of the world's most dangerous places, including Afghanistan, where he came under fire in a region controlled by the Taliban in 2013.
While at The Miami Herald, he won the Pulitzer twice, for his 1987 coverage of the crack epidemic and for his photos of a volcano eruption in Colombia in 1985. In 2007, he shared the Pulitzer Prize for public service -- journalism's most prestigious award -- for his photographs of veterans being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. |