Photojournalist Michel du Cille,58, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph and who recently chronicled Ebola patients and their caretakers, has died in Liberia while on assignment for The Washington Post.
Executive
Editor of Washington Post, Martin Baron sent a statement to the newspaper staff
informing them of du Cille's death. Baron called du Cille "one of the
world's most accomplished photographers."
He collapsed
Thursday while returning on foot from a Liberian village in the Salala district
of Liberia’s Bong County where he'd been working on an assignment. He was taken
to a hospital two hours away and was declared dead of an apparent heart attack.
Du Cille
won two Pulitzer Prizes as a photographer with the Miami Herald in the 1980s
and shared a third, for public service, while at the Post in 2008.
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