Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise
Award Year: 1996
Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1996
Recipient: Corrine Dufka
Affiliation: Reuters
Honored Work: “Liberia: From a Dead Man’s Wallet”
Seldom in recent memory has there been a more brutal and chaotic breakdown of law and order than in the civil war in Liberia, which subsided and then broke out anew in 1996. Dufka put her life at risk to produce shocking images of the slaughter that were broadcast around the world.
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