Best photographic reporting from abroad for newspapers or wire services
AWARD YEAR: 1981
AWARD NAME: Best Photographic Reporting From Abroad for Newspapers or Wire Services
AWARD RECIPIENT: Kent Kobersteen
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Minneapolis Tribune
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Global Poverty/The Darkening Future”
Teeming slums in Mexico; beggars drawing water from a polluted well in Calcutta, farmers striving to grow food from unyielding land in Egypt, Senegal and Pakistan; skeletal, diseased children and adults around the world: all were part of the story of “Global Poverty/The Darkening Future” that Kent Kobersteen pictured both graphically and sensitively for the Minneapolis Tribune. As part of a Tribune reporter-photographer team Kobersteen traveled through Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Senegal and Mexico to report the plight of the world’s poor. The pictures appeared in two Sunday magazines and a seven-part series in the Tribune. Kobersteen, a native of Minneapolis and graduate of the Minnesota University School of Journalism, has covered stories domestic and overseas for the Tribune since 1965.
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The judges were: Barrett Gallagher, Charles E. Rotkin, Arnold Drapkin, John Durniak, John Morris, Arthur Rothstein, Sean Callahan.