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 | |
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1955 | Howard Sochurek | 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 | 20 | "Coverage of Lebanon" | CBS News | |
1959 | Mario Biasetti | 21 | "Recording the Nicaragua[7] 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[8] | 25 | "Jungle War in Vietnam"[9] | Life | |
1964 | Horst Faas | 26 | Coverage of Vietnam | Associated Press | |
1965 | Larry Burrows | 27 | "With a Brave Crew in a Deadly Flight"[10] | Life | |
1966 | Henri Huet[11] | 28 | Vietnam[12] | Associated Press | |
1967 | David Douglas Duncan[13] | 29 | "Inside the Cone of Fire - Con Thien, Vietnam" | Life and ABC News | |
1968 | John Olson[14] | 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[15] | 32 | "Coverage of war in Cambodia[16] " | United Press International | |
1971 | Larry Burrows[17] | 33 | "Coverage of war in Laotian war zone" | Life | |
1972 | Clive W. Limpkin | 34 | "Battle of Bogside" | Penguin Books | |
1973 | David Burnett,[18] Raymond Depardon,[19] and Chas Gerretsen[20] | 35 | "Chile" | Gamma Presse Images | |
1974 | W. Eugene Smith[21] | 36 | "Minamata,[22] Japan: Life - Sacred and Profane" | Camera 35 | |
1975 | Dirck Halstead[23] | 37 | Coverage of Vietnam | Time | |
1976 | Catherine Leroy[24] | 38 | Coverage of street fighting in Beirut. | Gamma for Time | |
1977 | Eddie Adams[25] | 39 | "The Boat of No Smiles" | The Associated Press | |
1978 | Susan Meiselas[26] | 40 | Nicaraguan Revolution | Time | |
1979 | Kaveh Golestan[27] | 41 | "Coverage of the Iranian Revolution" | Time | |
1980 | Steve McCurry[28] | 42 | "Undercover photography of Afghan rebels" | Time | |
1981 | Rudi Frey[29] | 43 | Coverage in Poland[30] | Time | |
1982 | Harry Mattison[31] | 44 | "Coverage of guerilla warfare in El Salvador" | Time | |
1983 | James Nachtwey[32] | 45 | "Lebanon" | Time | |
1984 | James Nachtwey | 46 | "Photos of El Salvador" | Black Star for Time | |
1985 | Peter Magubane[33] | 47 | "Cry for Justice: Cry for Peace" | Time | |
1986 | James Nachtwey | 48 | "Island at War" | Time/GEO (German edition) | |
1987 | Janet Knott[34] | 49 | "Democracy: What Price?" | The Boston Globe | |
1988 | Chris Steele-Perkins[35] | 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[36] | 52 | Civil war in Myanmar | Black Star for U.S. News & World Report | |
1991 | Christopher Morris[37] | 53 | "Slaughter in Vukovar" | Black Star for Time | |
1992 | Luc Delahaye[38] | 54 | "Sarajevo: Life in the War Zone" | Sipa Press | |
1993 | Paul Watson[39] | 55 | "Mogadishu" | The Toronto Star | |
1994 | James Nachtwey | 56 | "Election Violence in South Africa" | Magnum for Time Magazine | |
1995 | Anthony Suau[40] | 57 | "Grozny: Russia's Nightmare" | Time | |
1996 | Corinne Dufka[41] | 58 | "Liberia: From a Dead Man's Wallet" | Reuters | |
1997 | Horst Faas/Tim Page[42] | 59 | "Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina" | ||
1998 | James Nachtwey | 60 | "Indonesia: Descent into Madness" | Magnum for Time | |
1999 | John Stanmeyer[43] | 61 | "The Killing of Bernardino Guterres in Dili, East Timor" | SABA for Time | |
2000 | Chris Anderson[44] | 62 | "Desperate Passage" | Aurora for The New York Times Magazine, | |
2001 | Luc Delahaye | 63 | "Afghanistan" | Magnum for Newsweek | |
2002 | Carolyn Cole[45] | 64 | "Church of the Nativity: In the Center of the Siege" | The Los Angeles Times[46] | |
2003 | Carolyn Cole | 65 | "Covering Conflict: Iraq and Liberia" | The Los Angeles Times | |
2004 | Ashley Gilbertson[47] | 66 | "The Battle for Fallujah" | Aurora for The New York Times | |
2005 | Chris Hondros[48] | 67 | "One Night In Tal Afar" | Getty Images | |
2006 | Paolo Pellegrin[49] | 68 | "True Pain: Israel & Hizbullah" | Magnum for Newsweek | |
2007 | John Moore[50] | 69 | "The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto" | Getty Images for Newsweek | |
2008 | Shaul Schwarz[51] | 70 | "Kenya: The Wreckage of a Democracy" | Getty Images for Newsweek | |
2009 | Khalil Hamra[52] | 71 | "War in Gaza" | Associated Press | |
2010 | Agnes Dherbeys[53] | 72 | Violence Erupts in Thailand | Freelance for The New York Times | |
2011 | André Liohn[54] | 73 | "Almost Dawn in Libya" | Prospekt Photographers for Newsweek - International Committee of the Red Cross | |
2012 | Fabio Bucciarelli[55] | 74 | "Battle to Death" | Freelance for AFP | |
2013 | Tyler Hicks | 75 | "Attack on a Kenyan Mall" | The New York Times | |
2014 | Marcus Bleasdale[56] | 76 | "Central African Republic Inferno" | Human Rights Watch, National Geographic | |
2015 | Bassam Khabieh[57] [58] | 77 | "Field Hospital Damascus" | Reuters | |
2016 | Bryan Denton Sergey Ponomarev[59] | 78 | "What ISIS Wrought"[60] | The New York Times[61] [62] | |
2017 | Carol Guzy[63] | 79 | "Scars Of Mosul: The Legacy of ISIS"[64] | Zuma Press[65] | |
2018 | Carolyn Van Houten[66] | 80 | "The road to Asylum: Inside the migrant caravans" | The Washington Post | |
2019 | Dieu Nalio Chery[67] | 81 | "Haiti: Nation on the Brink" | Associated Press | |
2020 | Kiana Hayeri[68] | 82 | "Where Prison Is a Kind of Freedom" | The New York Times Magazine | |
2021 | Anonymous[69] | 83 | "Myanmar in Turmoil" | Getty Images |
. Howard Chapnick. Truth Needs No Ally: Inside Photojournalism. University of Missouri. 978-0-82620-955-9. 1994. registration.