Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise
YEAR: 2003
AWARD NAME: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2003
RECIPIENT: Carolyn Cole
RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Los Angeles Times
HONORED WORK: “Covering Conflict: Iraq and Liberia”
For the second year in a row, Cole has won the Capa Gold Medal, this time for coverage of the wars in Iraq and Liberia. Her photographs are about the human tragedy of war-heart-wrenching, visceral, and horrific.
Citations:
Christopher Anderson
VII for U.S. News & World Report
“The Road to Baghdad”
Gary Knight
VII for Newsweek
“The Battle for Diyala Bridge”