Best photographic reporting or interpretation from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise
AWARD YEAE: 1988
AWARD NAME: The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1988
RECIPIENT: Chris Steele-Perkins
AFFILIATION: Magnum for TIME magazine
HONORED WORK: “Graveside Terror”
In spite of considerable gunfire and hand-grenade explosions, Steele-Perkins kept his cool and photographed the chaos and panic provoked by a terrorist attack on a Catholic funeral in Northern Ireland. His pictures give a full visual accounting of the incidents in which three people died and another 60 were injured among the tombstones and in the funeral cortege.
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