Robert Capa Gold Medal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Robert Capa Gold Medal is an award for "best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise".[1] It is awarded annually by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). It was created in honor of the war photographer Robert Capa.[1] The first Robert Capa Gold Medal was awarded in 1955 to Howard Sochurek.[2]
| Year[3] | Recipient | OPC | Awarded For | Organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Howard Sochurek[2] | 17 | Coverage of North Vietnam[4] | Magnum for Life |
| 1956 | John Sadovy[5] | 18 | Hungarian Revolution[6] | Life |
| 1957 | no award | 19 | ||
| 1958 | Paul Bruck[7] | 20 | "Coverage of Lebanon" | CBS News |
| 1959 | Mario Biasetti[8] | 21 | "Recording the Nicaragua[9] revolt from both sides at great risk" | CBS News |
| 1960 | Yung Su Kwon[10] | 22 | "Coverage of Japanese riots at the time of James Hagerty's arrival" | NBC News |
| 1961 | no award | 23 | ||
| 1962 | Peter Dehmel and Klaus Dehmel[11] | 24 | "The Tunnel" | NBC News |
| 1963 | Larry Burrows[12] | 25 | "Jungle War in Vietnam"[13] | Life |
| 1964 | Horst Faas[14] | 26 | Coverage of Vietnam | Associated Press |
| 1965 | Larry Burrows[12] | 27 | "With a Brave Crew in a Deadly Flight"[15] | Life |
| 1966 | Henri Huet[16][17] | 28 | Vietnam[18] | Associated Press |
| 1967 | David Douglas Duncan[19] | 29 | "Inside the Cone of Fire - Con Thien, Vietnam" | Life and ABC News |
| 1968 | John Olson[20] | 30 | "The Battle That Regained and Ruined Huế" | Life |
| 1969 | Anonymous Czech photographer[21] (Later revealed to be Josef Koudelka) |
31 | "From A Death to Remember" | Look |
| 1970 | Kyoichi Sawada[22] | 32 | "Coverage of war in Cambodia[23]" | United Press International |
| 1971 | Larry Burrows[24] | 33 | "Coverage of war in Laotian war zone[25]" | Life |
| 1972 | Clive W. Limpkin[26] | 34 | "Battle of Bogside" | Penguin Books |
| 1973 | David Burnett,[27] Raymond Depardon,[28] and Chas Gerretsen[29] | 35 | "Chile" | Gamma Presse Images |
| 1974 | W. Eugene Smith[30] | 36 | "Minamata,[31] Japan: Life - Sacred and Profane" | Camera 35 |
| 1975 | Dirck Halstead[32] | 37 | Coverage of Vietnam | Time |
| 1976 | Catherine Leroy[33] | 38 | Coverage of street fighting in Beirut. | Gamma for Time |
| 1977 | Eddie Adams[34] | 39 | "The Boat of No Smiles" | The Associated Press |
| 1978 | Susan Meiselas[35] | 40 | Nicaraguan Revolution | Time |
| 1979 | Kaveh Golestan[36] | 41 | "Coverage of the Iranian Revolution" | Time |
| 1980 | Steve McCurry[37] | 42 | "Undercover photography of Afghan rebels" | Time |
| 1981 | Rudi Frey[38] | 43 | Coverage in Poland[39] | Time |
| 1982 | Harry Mattison[40] | 44 | "Coverage of guerilla warfare in El Salvador" | Time |
| 1983 | James Nachtwey[41] | 45 | "Lebanon" | Time |
| 1984 | James Nachtwey[41] | 46 | "Photos of El Salvador" | Black Star for Time |
| 1985 | Peter Magubane[42] | 47 | "Cry for Justice: Cry for Peace" | Time |
| 1986 | James Nachtwey[41] | 48 | "Island at War" | Time/GEO (German edition) |
| 1987 | Janet Knott[43] | 49 | "Democracy: What Price?" | The Boston Globe |
| 1988 | Chris Steele-Perkins[44] | 50 | "Graveside Terror" | Magnum for Time Magazine |
| 1989 | David Turnley[45] | 51 | "Revolutions in China and Romania" | Black Star for The Detroit Free Press |
| 1990 | Bruce Haley[46] | 52 | Civil war in Myanmar | Black Star for U.S. News & World Report |
| 1991 | Christopher Morris[47] | 53[47] | "Slaughter in Vukovar" | Black Star for Time |
| 1992 | Luc Delahaye[48] | 54 | "Sarajevo: Life in the War Zone" | Sipa Press |
| 1993 | Paul Watson[49] | 55 | "Mogadishu" | The Toronto Star |
| 1994 | James Nachtwey[41] | 56 | "Election Violence in South Africa" | Magnum for Time Magazine |
| 1995 | Anthony Suau[50] | 57 | "Grozny: Russia's Nightmare" | Time |
| 1996 | Corinne Dufka[51] | 58 | "Liberia: From a Dead Man's Wallet" | Reuters |
| 1997 | Horst Faas/Tim Page[52] | 59 | "Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina" | Random House |
| 1998 | James Nachtwey[41] | 60 | "Indonesia: Descent into Madness" | Magnum for Time |
| 1999 | John Stanmeyer[53] | 61 | "The Killing of Bernardino Guterres in Dili, East Timor" | SABA for Time |
| 2000 | Chris Anderson[54] | 62[54] | "Desperate Passage" | Aurora for The New York Times Magazine, |
| 2001 | Luc Delahaye[48] | 63 | "Afghanistan" | Magnum for Newsweek |
| 2002 | Carolyn Cole[55] | 64 | "Church of the Nativity: In the Center of the Siege" | The Los Angeles Times[56] |
| 2003 | Carolyn Cole[55] | 65 | "Covering Conflict: Iraq and Liberia" | The Los Angeles Times |
| 2004 | Ashley Gilbertson[57] | 66 | "The Battle for Fallujah" | Aurora for The New York Times |
| 2005 | Chris Hondros[58] | 67 | "One Night In Tal Afar" | Getty Images |
| 2006 | Paolo Pellegrin[59] | 68 | "True Pain: Israel & Hizbullah" | Magnum for Newsweek |
| 2007 | John Moore[60] | 69 | "The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto" | Getty Images for Newsweek |
| 2008 | Shaul Schwarz[61] | 70 | "Kenya: The Wreckage of a Democracy" | Getty Images for Newsweek |
| 2009 | Khalil Hamra[62] | 71 | "War in Gaza" | Associated Press |
| 2010 | Agnes Dherbeys[63] | 72 | Violence Erupts in Thailand | Freelance for The New York Times |
| 2011 | André Liohn[64] | 73 | "Almost Dawn in Libya" | Prospekt Photographers for Newsweek - International Committee of the Red Cross |
| 2012 | Fabio Bucciarelli[65] | 74 | "Battle to Death" | Freelance for AFP |
| 2013 | Tyler Hicks[2] | 75 | "Attack on a Kenyan Mall" | The New York Times |
| 2014 | Marcus Bleasdale[66] | 76 | "Central African Republic Inferno" | Human Rights Watch, National Geographic |
| 2015 | Bassam Khabieh[67][68] | 77[68] | "Field Hospital Damascus" | Reuters |
| 2016 | Bryan Denton Sergey Ponomarev[69] |
78 | "What ISIS Wrought"[70] | The New York Times[71][72] |
| 2017 | Carol Guzy[73] | 79 | "Scars Of Mosul: The Legacy of ISIS"[74] | Zuma Press[75] |
| 2018 | Carolyn Van Houten[76] | 80 | "The road to Asylum: Inside the migrant caravans" | The Washington Post |
| 2019 | Dieu Nalio Chery[77] | 81 | "Haiti: Nation on the Brink" | Associated Press |
| 2020 | Kiana Hayeri[78] | 82 | "Where Prison Is a Kind of Freedom" | The New York Times Magazine |
| 2021 | Anonymous[79] | 83 | "Myanmar in Turmoil" | Getty Images |
| 2022 | Marcus Yam[80] | 84 | "The First 30 Days of the War in Ukraine" | Los Angeles Times |
| 2023 | Samar Abu Elouf[81] | 85 | "Gaza" | The New York Times |
| 2024 | Laura Boushnak and Nariman El-Mofty[82] | 86 | "Gaza's Injured Children" | The New York Times |