Javier Manzano
Javier Manzano is an award-winning Mexican photographer known for his coverage of the country's drug wars, the War in Afghanistan and the Syrian civil war.[1]
Life and career
Manzano was born in Mexico but moved to the United States with his family when he was 18 years old. He worked as a journalist and photographer for advertising agencies and the Rocky Mountain News until the newspaper closed its doors in 2009, after which he began working as a freelance photographer for the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Foreign Policy[2] and other news outlets.[3]
Awards
- 2011 World Press Photo Award[4]
- 2013 World Press Photo Award[4]
- 2013 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography[5]
- 2013 Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents[6]
- 2016 Pell Center Prize for Story in the Public Square[7]
Manzano's Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph was taken in October 2012 at the Karm-al Jabal district of Aleppo, Syria. It shows two Free Syrian Army soldiers guarding a sniper's nest as light streams through bullet holes in the wall behind them.[8] Manzano is the first freelance photographer to be awarded the prize in 17 years, when Charles Porter IV and Stephanie Welsh won in 1996.[9]
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