Best photographic reporting or interpretation from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise
AWARD YEAR: 1981
AWARD NAME: The Robert Capa Gold Medal
AWARD RECIPIENT: Rudi Frey
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: TIME magazine
AWARD HONORED WORK: Coverage in Poland
From the inception of the Solidarity movement, Frey covered all the major personalities and events of the year. When martial law was declared, he was one of two photojournalists at Solidarity’s last meeting in Gdansk and took some of the last pictures of Lech Walesa and the Solidarity leaders before their arrest He was first on the scene at Lenin Shipyard the day martial law was declared. His were the fITSt still pictures smuggled out of Poland Frey operated under extremely difficult circumstances and at great personal peril during these volatile days in
Poland An Austrian who lives in Rome, Frey has been taking pictures for Time for six years.
A citation was awarded to Heruy Herr Gill of the Chicago SunTimes for “Cocaine Express/ Marijuana & Murder.”
Judges: Barrett Gallagher, Charles E. Rotkin, Arnold Drapkin, John Durniak, John Morris, Arthur Rothstein, Sean Callahan.