Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise
AWARD YEAR: 2002
AWARD NAME: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2002
RECIPIENT: Carolyn Cole
AFFILIATION: The Los Angeles Times
HONORED WORK: “Church of the Nativity: In the Center of the Siege”
Exceptional courage and enterprise is exactly what it took for Carolyn Cole to go into the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and to document the last nine days of the siege. In a hostile setting, with little food, water, or proper equipment, she was able to show the desperate situation — and to compose beautiful images, bathed in warm golden light.
Citation for Excellence:
Paolo Pellegrin
Magnum for The New York Times Magazine
“An Impossible Occupation”