Robert Capa Gold Medal

Photography award

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]

## Winners

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Year[3] | Recipient  | OPC  | Awarded For  | Organization

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1955  | Howard Sochurek[2] | 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[7] | 20  | "Coverage of Lebanon"  | CBS News
1959  | Mario Biasetti[8] | 21  | "Recording the Nicaragua[9] revolt from both sides at great risk"  | CBS News
1960  | Yung Su Kwon[10] | 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[11] | 24  | "The Tunnel"  | NBC News
1963  | Larry Burrows[12] | 25  | "Jungle War in Vietnam"[13] | Life
1964  | Horst Faas[14] | 26  | Coverage of Vietnam  | Associated Press
1965  | Larry Burrows[12] | 27  | "With a Brave Crew in a Deadly Flight"[15] | Life
1966  | Henri Huet[16][17] | 28  | Vietnam[18] | Associated Press
1967  | David Douglas Duncan[19] | 29  | "Inside the Cone of Fire - Con Thien, Vietnam"  | Life and ABC News
1968  | John Olson[20] | 30  | "The Battle That Regained and Ruined Huế"  | Life
1969  | Anonymous Czech photographer[21]
(Later revealed to be Josef Koudelka)  | 31  | "From A Death to Remember"  | Look
1970  | Kyoichi Sawada[22] | 32  | "Coverage of war in Cambodia[23]"  | United Press International
1971  | Larry Burrows[24] | 33  | "Coverage of war in Laotian war zone[25]"  | Life
1972  | Clive W. Limpkin[26] | 34  | "Battle of Bogside"  | Penguin Books
1973  | David Burnett,[27] Raymond Depardon,[28] and Chas Gerretsen[29] | 35  | "Chile"  | Gamma Presse Images
1974  | W. Eugene Smith[30] | 36  | "Minamata,[31] Japan: Life - Sacred and Profane"  | Camera 35
1975  | Dirck Halstead[32] | 37  | Coverage of Vietnam  | Time
1976  | Catherine Leroy[33] | 38  | Coverage of street fighting in Beirut.  | Gamma for Time
1977  | Eddie Adams[34] | 39  | "The Boat of No Smiles"  | The Associated Press
1978  | Susan Meiselas[35] | 40  | Nicaraguan Revolution | Time
1979  | Kaveh Golestan[36] | 41  | "Coverage of the Iranian Revolution"  | Time
1980  | Steve McCurry[37] | 42  | "Undercover photography of Afghan rebels"  | Time
1981  | Rudi Frey[38] | 43  | Coverage in Poland[39] | Time
1982  | Harry Mattison[40] | 44  | "Coverage of guerilla warfare in El Salvador"  | Time
1983  | James Nachtwey[41] | 45  | "Lebanon"  | Time
1984  | James Nachtwey[41] | 46  | "Photos of El Salvador"  | Black Star for Time
1985  | Peter Magubane[42] | 47  | "Cry for Justice: Cry for Peace"  | Time
1986  | James Nachtwey[41] | 48  | "Island at War"  | Time/GEO (German edition)
1987  | Janet Knott[43] | 49  | "Democracy: What Price?"  | The Boston Globe
1988  | Chris Steele-Perkins[44] | 50  | "Graveside Terror"  | Magnum for Time Magazine
1989  | David Turnley[45] | 51  | "Revolutions in China and Romania"  | Black Star for The Detroit Free Press
1990  | Bruce Haley[46] | 52  | Civil war in Myanmar | Black Star for U.S. News & World Report
1991  | Christopher Morris[47] | 53[47] | "Slaughter in Vukovar"  | Black Star for Time
1992  | Luc Delahaye[48] | 54  | "Sarajevo: Life in the War Zone"  | Sipa Press
1993  | Paul Watson[49] | 55  | "Mogadishu"  | The Toronto Star
1994  | James Nachtwey[41] | 56  | "Election Violence in South Africa"  | Magnum for Time Magazine
1995  | Anthony Suau[50] | 57  | "Grozny: Russia's Nightmare"  | Time
1996  | Corinne Dufka[51] | 58  | "Liberia: From a Dead Man's Wallet"  | Reuters
1997  | Horst Faas/Tim Page[52] | 59  | "Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina"  | Random House
1998  | James Nachtwey[41] | 60  | "Indonesia: Descent into Madness"  | Magnum for Time
1999  | John Stanmeyer[53] | 61  | "The Killing of Bernardino Guterres in Dili, East Timor"  | SABA for Time
2000  | Chris Anderson[54] | 62[54] | "Desperate Passage"  | Aurora for The New York Times Magazine,
2001  | Luc Delahaye[48] | 63  | "Afghanistan"  | Magnum for Newsweek
2002  | Carolyn Cole[55] | 64  | "Church of the Nativity: In the Center of the Siege"  | The Los Angeles Times[56]
2003  | Carolyn Cole[55] | 65  | "Covering Conflict: Iraq and Liberia"  | The Los Angeles Times
2004  | Ashley Gilbertson[57] | 66  | "The Battle for Fallujah"  | Aurora for The New York Times
2005  | Chris Hondros[58] | 67  | "One Night In Tal Afar"  | Getty Images
2006  | Paolo Pellegrin[59] | 68  | "True Pain: Israel & Hizbullah"  | Magnum for Newsweek
2007  | John Moore[60] | 69  | "The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto"  | Getty Images for Newsweek
2008  | Shaul Schwarz[61] | 70  | "Kenya: The Wreckage of a Democracy"  | Getty Images for Newsweek
2009  | Khalil Hamra[62] | 71  | "War in Gaza"  | Associated Press
2010  | Agnes Dherbeys[63] | 72  | Violence Erupts in Thailand  | Freelance for The New York Times
2011  | André Liohn[64] | 73  | "Almost Dawn in Libya"  | Prospekt Photographers for Newsweek - International Committee of the Red Cross
2012  | Fabio Bucciarelli[65] | 74  | "Battle to Death"  | Freelance for AFP
2013  | Tyler Hicks[2] | 75  | "Attack on a Kenyan Mall"  | The New York Times
2014  | Marcus Bleasdale[66] | 76  | "Central African Republic Inferno"  | Human Rights Watch, National Geographic
2015  | Bassam Khabieh[67][68] | 77[68] | "Field Hospital Damascus"  | Reuters
2016  | Bryan Denton
Sergey Ponomarev[69] | 78  | "What ISIS Wrought"[70] | The New York Times[71][72]
2017  | Carol Guzy[73] | 79  | "Scars Of Mosul: The Legacy of ISIS"[74] | Zuma Press[75]
2018  | Carolyn Van Houten[76] | 80  | "The road to Asylum: Inside the migrant caravans"  | The Washington Post
2019  | Dieu Nalio Chery[77] | 81  | "Haiti: Nation on the Brink"  | Associated Press
2020  | Kiana Hayeri[78] | 82  | "Where Prison Is a Kind of Freedom"  | The New York Times Magazine
2021  | Anonymous[79] | 83  | "Myanmar in Turmoil"  | Getty Images
2022  | Marcus Yam[80] | 84  | "The First 30 Days of the War in Ukraine"  | Los Angeles Times
2023  | Samar Abu Elouf[81] | 85  | "Gaza"  | The New York Times
2024  | Laura Boushnak and Nariman El-Mofty[82] | 86  | "Gaza's Injured Children"  | The New York Times

## References

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3. ^ The year of the award is the year of the work. From 2009, the recipient is named in April of the next year.
4. ^ Schurk, Howard; Northup, Steve; Azzi, Robert; Sloan, Lester; Forman, Stanley (Summer 1980). "Photographic Portfolios of Nieman Alumni: Howard Sochurek Nieman Fellow 1960" (PDF). Nieman Reports. Vol. XXXIV, no. 2\. p. 16. Retrieved 2016-07-23. "North Viet-nam (...) in 1955"
5. ^ Robertson, Louise (13 January 2011). "Award-winning Hungarian uprising photogapher has died". ThisIsLocalLondon. Retrieved 2016-06-21. "in 1956"
6. ^ "The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Pictures by John Sadovy". Hungarian Cultural Centre in London. 18 October 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-08. "earning him the second ever Robert Capa Gold Medal."
7. ^ Capa, Capa & Karia 1974, p. 127\. 1958: "Paul Bruck"
8. ^ Capa, Capa & Karia 1974, p. 127\. 1959: "Mario Biasetti"
9. ^ "Snippet view". books.google.com. 1960. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
10. ^ Capa, Capa & Karia 1974, p. 127\. 1960: "Yung Su Kwon"
11. ^ Capa, Capa & Karia 1974, p. 127\. 1962: "Peter Dehmel and Klaus Dehmel"
12. ^ a b Capa, Capa & Karia 1974, pp. 127\. 1963–65: "Larry Burrows"
13. ^ Hunt, George P. (8 May 1964). "LIFE's Twenty-one Award Winners". Life. Vol. 56, no. 19\. p. 3. Retrieved 2016-07-23. "in Vietnam"
14. ^ Capa, Capa & Karia 1974, p. 127\. 1964: "Horst Faas"
15. ^ Kuhn, Annette; McAllister, Kirsten Emiko (20 December 2006). Locating Memory: Photographic Acts. Remapping cultural history. Vol. 4\. Berghahn. ISBN 978-1-84545-219-3. Retrieved 2016-07-21. "Yankee Papa 13"
16. ^ "Henri Huet". The Digital Journalist. November 1997. Retrieved 2016-06-20. "Henri won the Robert Capa gold medal in 1967"
17. ^ Capa, Capa & Karia 1974, p. 127\. 1966-67: "Henri Huet"
18. ^ "Snippet view". books.google.com. 1967. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
19. ^ Roth, Mitchel P.; Olson, James Stuart (22 April 1997). Historical Dictionary of War Journalism. Greenwood. p. 325\. ISBN 978-0-38795-363-2. "In 1967"
20. ^ "An Interview with John Olson". The Digital Journalist. July 2001. Retrieved 2016-06-20. "in 1967, and less than a year later he had won the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his coverage of the Siege of Hue"
21. ^ Capa, Capa & Karia 1974, p. 127\. 1970: "Anonymous"
22. ^ Faas, Horst; Page, Tim (November 1997). "Requiem". The Digital Journalist. Retrieved 2016-06-20. "After his death in Cambodia('Died: October 28, 1970'), he received the Robert Capa Gold Medal"
23. ^ Pomeroy, Charles (13 September 2011). Foreign Correspondents in Japan. Tuttle. ISBN 978-1-46290-194-4. Retrieved 2016-07-19. "in Vietnam"
24. ^ Le Gall, Hervé (10 February 2011). "Hommage à Larry Burrows, photographe de guerre et homme de paix (1926-1971)" [Tribute to Larry Burrows, war photographer and man of peace (1926-1971).]. Shots.fr (in French). Retrieved 2016-07-07. "Robert Capa Gold medal en 1971"
25. ^ Kershaw 2012: "Indo-China"
26. ^ Capa, Capa & Karia 1974, p. 127\. 1973: "Limpkin"
27. ^ "The Photographers Bio & Portfolios: David Burnett". Contact Press Images. 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
28. ^ "Raymond Depardon". PalmeraieEtDesert.fr. Retrieved 2016-06-21. "1973"
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31. ^ McDarrah, Gloria S.; McDarrah, Fred W.; McDarrah, Timothy S. (1 December 1998). The Photography Encyclopedia. Schirmer. ISBN 978-0-02865-025-8. Retrieved 2016-07-22. "Smith's Minamata"
32. ^ "Dirck Halstead, INC". The Digital Journalist. Retrieved 2016-06-20. "In 1975, he won the Robert Capa Gold Medal"
33. ^ Winslow, Donald R. (11 July 2006). "Vietnam War Photojournalist Catherine Leroy, 60". NPPA. Retrieved 2016-06-20. "in 1976"
34. ^ Winslow, Donald R. (18 September 2009). "Eddie Adams' Archive Donated To University Of Texas Briscoe Center". NPPA. Retrieved 2016-06-20. "in 1977"
35. ^ "Susan Meiselas carrying the past, forward". Fotografie Forum Frankfurt. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-21. "(1979)"
36. ^ "Kaveh Golestan". IranChamber.com. Retrieved 2016-06-21. "In 1979"
37. ^ "Still Moving: Photographs by Steve McCurry". Palmer Museum of Art. 14 June 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-21. "in 1980"
38. ^ "Post Correspondent Wins Award for Sadat Story". The Washington Post. 29 April 1982. Retrieved 2016-06-21. "Rudi Frey of Time magazine"
39. ^ "Snippet view". books.google.com. 1982. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
40. ^ "Image, Memory and the Paradox of Peace". The University of Texas at Austin. 17 April 2008. Retrieved 2016-06-21. "In 1982"
41. ^ a b c d e "James Nachtwey leaves VIII Photo". The Daily Telegraph. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 2016-06-19. "Robert Capa Gold Medal (1983, 1984, 1986, 1994 and 1998)"
42. ^ "Overseas Press Club awards for 1985". UPI. 16 April 1986. Retrieved 2016-06-21. "Peter Magubane, a resident of Soweto, South Africa, for pictures of life in his country"
43. ^ "Knott wins award for haiti photos". The Boston Globe  – via PqArchiver.com (subscription required) . 20 April 1988. p. 82. Retrieved 2016-07-05.(subscription+required)+Category:Subscription+required+using+viaCategory:Pages+containing+links+to+subscription-only+content&rft.atitle=Knott+wins+award+for+haiti+photos&rft.pages=82&rft.date=1988-04-20&rft_id=https://secure.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/294452999.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS;=ABS:FT&type;=current&date;=Apr+20%2C+1988&author;=&pub;=Boston+Globe+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&edition;=&startpage;=82&desc;=KNOTT+WINS+AWARD+FOR+HAITI+PHOTOS&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Robert+Capa+Gold+Medal" class="Z3988">
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45. ^ Chapnick 1994, p. 285: "in 1990"
46. ^ Warren, Mathew R. (4 March 2011). "Rebuilding Lives in Former Soviet Lands". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
47. ^ a b "Overseas Press Club Gives Award to Terry Anderson". The New York Times. 6 May 1992. Retrieved 2016-06-16. "their work in 1991 during the club's 53d annual awards dinner"
48. ^ a b Richards, Roger (August 2004). "View from the Photo Desk: Luc Delahaye". The Digital Journalist. Retrieved 2016-06-18. "he received the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal (2002 & 1993)"
49. ^ "About Paul Watson". ArcticStarCreativity.com. Retrieved 2016-07-04. "his 1993 Somalia image"
50. ^ Macleod, Duncan (27 February 2009). "Anthony Suau wins World Press Photo Award". theInspirationRoom.com. Retrieved 2016-07-03. "in 1995"
51. ^ "Overseas Press Club, New York". American Photo. July–August 1997. p. 25. Retrieved 2016-07-02. "Announced: April 1997"
52. ^ Page, Tim (September 2005). "Separations of Neil". The Digital Journalist. Retrieved 2016-06-20. "including the 1997 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award"
53. ^ Seno, Alexandra A. (20 December 2010). "A Photographer's View of Balinese Rituals". WSJ. Retrieved 2016-06-19. "Robert Capa Gold Medal award in 1999"
54. ^ a b "Overseas Press Club Presents 20 International Reporting Awards". PR Newswire. 26 April 2001. Retrieved 2016-06-18. "OPC's 62nd Annual Awards Dinner"
55. ^ a b DeFoore, Jay (30 April 2004). "Carolyn Cole Wins Another Major Photo Award". Editor & Publisher. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
56. ^ "Times' Carolyn Cole Honored for Bethlehem Siege Photos". The Los Angeles Times. 16 February 2003. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
57. ^ "Ashley Gilbertson Wins The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award For Coverage Of Fallujah". NPPA. 15 April 2005. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
58. ^ "IRP Fellow Chris Hondros receives 2005 Robert Capa award for photography". International Reporting Project. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
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64. ^ "The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2011". OPC. 28 April 2012. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
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66. ^ Katz, Andrew (30 April 2015). "Marcus Bleasdale Wins Robert Capa Gold Medal". Time. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
67. ^ Lowry, Rachel (28 April 2016). "Bassam Khabieh Wins Robert Capa Gold Medal". Time. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
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70. ^ "78th Overseas Press Club of America 03 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award". OPC. 28 March 2017. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
71. ^ Denton, Bryan (30 July 2016). "At the Front in a Scarred Falluja". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
72. ^ Ponomarev, Sergey; Arango, Tim (22 November 2016). "Mosul's Front Lines: Scenes of Flight". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
73. ^ Walker, David (22 March 2018). "Carol Guzy Wins 2018 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award". PDN. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
74. ^ "79th Overseas Press Club of America 03 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award". OPC. 28 March 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
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78. ^ "The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2020". OPC. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
79. ^ "03 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2021". OPC. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
80. ^ "The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2022". OPC. 2023-04-10. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
81. ^ "The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2023". OPC. 2024-04-10. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
82. ^ "03 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2024". OPC. 2025-04-05. Retrieved 2025-05-14.

## Bibliography

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* Capa, Robert; Capa, Cornell; Karia, Bhupendra (30 September 1974). Robert Capa, 1913-1954. Vol. 1 of Icp Library of Photographers. Grossman. ISBN 978-0-67060-095-3.
* Chapnick, Howard (1994). Truth Needs No Ally: Inside Photojournalism. University of Missouri. ISBN 978-0-82620-955-9.
* Kershaw, Alex (31 May 2012). Blood & Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-33049-250-8.

## External links

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* Official website

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Robert Capa

Photographs|

* The Falling Soldier (1936)
* Crowds Running for Shelter When the Air-raid Alarm Sounded (1937)
* Sicilian Peasant Telling an American Officer Which Way the Germans Had Gone (1943)
* The Shaved Woman of Chartres (1944)
* The Picture of the Last Man to Die (1945)

Photography series|

* The Magnificent Eleven (1944)

Books|

* Death in the Making (1938) (with Gerda Taro)
* The Battle of Waterloo Road (1941) (written by Diana Forbes-Robertson)
* A Russian Journal (1948) (with John Steinbeck)

Family and relationships|

* Ingrid Bergman (girlfriend)
* Cornell Capa (brother)
* Gerda Taro (associate, girlfriend)

Related|

* Capa House
* Magnum Photos
* Robert Capa Gold Medal
* The 400 Million (1938 documentary)
* La sombra del iceberg (2007 documentary)
* The Mexican Suitcase (2011 documentary)

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