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The story behind the Pulitzer picture
Reuters Bangkok senior photographer Adrees Latif tells how he took the pictures which won him a Pulitzer Prize. The pictures were taken in Myanmar during the protests in September last year and include the photo of Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai being shot.
“Tipped off by protests against soaring fuel prices, I landed in Yangon on 23 September, 2007, with some old clothes, a Canon 5D camera, two fixed lenses and a laptop.
For the next four days, I went to Shwedagon Pagoda, two-three kilometres from the centre of town and waited for the monks who had been gathering there daily at noon.
Adrees,
If you still get this, it’s Dai. Are you and C well? So very proud of you when it happened and now I can tell you finally. One day, I’ll tell you a story and why I knew there was Pulitzer in store. You’ll laugh at me, like you always did when I shared one of my ditzy tales.
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[...] No blog Reuters Photographers, uma apresentação multimídia conta em fotos e áudio a história da foto de Adrees Latif, reconhecida com o Pulitzer 2008, de um jornalista japonês morto à tiros por um soldado em Mianmar enquanto filmava uma manifestação poupular. [...]
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