Three Indian photographers receive Pulitzer Award for coverage of Kashmir

Srinagar, Ta. 05 May 2020, Tuesday

Three Indian photographers have been honored with the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of Jammu and Kashmir. All three photographers are residents of Jammu and Kashmir. Yasin Dar, Mukhtar Khan and Channy Anand have won the Pulitzer Feature Photography Award for capturing the aftermath of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir. All three work for the news agency AP.

Anand lives in Jammu while Yasin and Mukhtar are residents of Srinagar. Channy Anand has been working with AP for the last 20 years. The trio have brought a picture of the normal life of the valley as well as the image of the protesters and the security forces to the world.

Congratulations to Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan and arydaryasin of @AP . #Pulitzer pic.twitter.com/SJzGyK3sXq

- The Pulitzer Prizes (ulPulitzerPrizes) May 4, 2020

How many difficulties faced

These three photographers have done photography at a time when the situation in Kashmir was very difficult to present to the world. At the risk of his own life, he sometimes had to go to strangers' homes for coverage, and sometimes he had to take pictures with a camera hidden in vegetable baskets.

The three photographers captured the protests, police and paramilitary operations and the happenings in daily life in their cameras and took the picture to Delhi. After the central government repealed Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir and separated the two Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, a curfew was imposed for several months and telephone and internet services were cut off. At the airport, the photographers persuaded passengers on their way to Delhi to carry memory cards and deliver pictures of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir to Delhi. Expressing happiness over winning the award, he said, "I am amazed." I just can't believe it.