Michel duCille
He shared the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography with fellow Miami Herald staff photographer Carol Guzy for their coverage of the November 1985 eruption of Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz volcano. He won the 1988 Feature Photography Pulitzer for a photo essay on crack cocaine addicts in a Miami housing project ("photographs portraying the decay and subsequent rehabilitation of a housing project overrun by the drug crack"). The Washington Post received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his work, with reporters Dana Priest and Anne Hull, "in exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials." Du Cille was a photo editor for The Washington Post from 1988 until June 2005, when he became the Post's senior photographer.
Also recorded as Michelangelo Everard du Cille · Michel du Cille
Michel duCille
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- Born
- 1956 · Kingston.
- Died
- 2014 · Bong County.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer · photojournalist · journalist
- Honours
- Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography · Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography · Pulitzer Prize for Public Service · Pulitzer Prize for Photography · Journalist of the Year
- Languages
- English
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He shared the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography with fellow Miami Herald staff photographer Carol Guzy for their coverage of the November 1985 eruption of Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz volcano. He won the 1988 Feature Photography Pulitzer for a photo essay on crack cocaine addicts in a Miami housing project ("photographs portraying the decay and subsequent rehabilitation of a housing project overrun by the drug crack"). The Washington Post received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his work, with reporters Dana Priest and Anne Hull, "in exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials." Du Cille was a photo editor for The Washington Post from 1988 until June 2005, when he became the Post's senior photographer.
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He credited his initial interest in photography to his father, who worked as a newspaper reporter in Jamaica and the United States. He held a Bachelor of Journalism from Indiana University and a Master's in Journalism from Ohio University. Du Cille was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1956. He worked as a photojournalism intern at The Louisville Courier Journal/Times and The Miami Herald in 1979 and 1980 and joined the Herald staff in 1981. In October 2014, the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University disinvited du Cille from appearing at a workshop because he'd returned three weeks earlier from covering the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. Du Cille said at the time, "It's a disappointment to me. I'm pissed off and embarrassed and completely weirded out that a journalism institution that should be seeking out facts and details is basically pandering to hysteria." Du Cille died December 11, 2014, from an apparent heart attack at the age of 58 while on assignment in Liberia.
The authorities additionally record the headings Michelangelo Everard du Cille and Michel du Cille. His recorded language was English. He married Nikki Kahn.
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Michel duCille is recorded as having received Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
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1956
Michel duCille was born in 1956 at Kingston.
2014
Michel duCille died in 2014 at Bong County.
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Michel duCille received Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Pulitzer Prize for Photography and Journalist of the Year.
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- 1.Un triple vainqueur du Pulitzer décède au Liberia, Le Figaro, 14 décembre 2014.
- 2.Syracuse University disinvites Washington Post photographer because he was in Liberia 3 weeks ago. Washington Post. 17 October 2014.
- 3.Dana Priest, Anne Hull and Michel du Cille The Pulitzer Prizes.
- 4.Spot News Photography" The Pulitzer Prizes
- 5."Feature Photography" The Pulitzer Prizes.
- 6."The 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Public Service" The 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners, biographies, articles et photographies.
- 7.Colleges Isolate, Disinvite People Out Of An 'Abundance Of Caution' Over Ebola. The Huffington Post. 17 octobre 2014.
- 8.Michel du Cille, 58, Photographer Who Won 3 Pulitzer Prizes, Dies. The New York Times. 11 décembre 2014.
- 9.Michel du Cille, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, dies at 58. Washington Post. 11 décembre 2014.
- 10.Washington Post Photographer Michel du Cille Dies in Liberia. Time. 11 décembre 2014.
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