AWARD DATE: 1967
AWARD NAME: Best Daily Newspaper or Wire Service Photographing Reporting From Abroad
AWARD RECIPIENT: Peter Skingley
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: United Press International
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Move to the Rear” and “Line of Arab Defeat”
Peter Skingley, United Press International, for “Move to the Rear” and “Line of Arab Defeat” in the Israel-Arab war.
London-born Peter Skingley got his start in the fabled precincts of Fleet Street in 1944, when he was
only 14 and the second world war had not yet ended. He has followed a logical course, always associated with photography, from the early days when he trotted from one newspaper office to
another, delivering prints from Planet News (which was taken over in 1952 by United Press).
His next stint was as darkroom assistant. From there he went into the Royal Air Force (1948-1950), as a photographer. In civies once more, he returned to UPI as a full-fledged camera man, and to numerous assignments both on his native heath, and in Africa and the Middle East. In 1951, with his collection of trophies for his work already impressive, he emerged in Britain as photographer of the year. At the World Press Photo competition in The Hague in December, 1967, he won first and third prizes in the “spot news” category, with two of his views of the Israeli-Arab war. One of the two also tied for second place in the artistic (pictorial) category. He has only recently returned from a two-week
assignment in Israel- a sequel to his coverage last June.
Citation for Excellence: Catherine Leroy, freelance for Associated Press, for picture sequence “Beyond Help” in Vietnam.
Citation for Excellence: John Schneider, Associated Press stringer-photographer, for “The Fury of Con Thien”.
Citation for Excellence: Henry Herr Gill, Chicago Daily News, for his album of photo coverage from
various trouble spots in 1967.
Citation for Excellence: Henri Huet and Horst Faas, Associated Press, for Vietnam coverage.