'I shoot for the common man': Danish Siddiqui.
I felt bad after receiving the news yesterday. Such a great photojournalist has died, but to be honest, I don't think there is a lot of talk about photojournalists in our country. BBC, Reuters are showing his news repeatedly from yesterday. I heard the name of Danish Siddiqui a couple of years back during the time of Pulitzer Prize announcement. Danish, received the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 as part of the photography staff of Reuters. His photographs exposed the world to the violence Rohingya refugees faced. Danish was covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters on Friday.
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Who was Danish Siddiqui?
In India people are obsessed with Engineering and Govt jobs, and the photographers and the artists from other fields often don’t get their due. And this was no less than a fairy tale from which Danish came up. Dennis started working for Router in 2010. Dennis worked in war zones everywhere from Afghanistan Iraq to Nepal, Hong Kong, the Rohingya refugee crisis. In Danish's own language "While I enjoy covering news stories - from business to politics to sports - what I enjoy most is capturing the human face of a breaking story."
Even when the 2nd wave of coronavirus was going on in India, the pictures taken by Danish showed the horrible situation of India in front of the whole world. Siddiqui told Reuters he had been wounded in the arm on Friday while reporting on the clash as reported in the Reuters. But yet this guy didn't give up and kept on doing his job.
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Today I was looking at Danish's website. I am also putting the link here. Please spare some time and visit his website to go through the pictures Danish has clicked. Danish may not be here today but his timeless pictures remain for us. Photography is a form of storytelling and I believe Danish was a perfect storyteller.
The death of such a Brave photojournalist is truly a great loss. Although I hope that seeing Danish in his pictures and his work in the future will inspire many more new talents in our country to come to this photojournalism line and we will get many more new photojournalists.
The 41 years old chief photographer for Reuters news agency in India died on assignment on Friday in Afghanistan and we salute his bravery and his dedication.
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| Source: Twitter Handle of Danish Siddiqui |