Robert Capa Gold Medal

The first Robert Capa Gold Medal was awarded in 1955 to Howard Sochurek.

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