The story of the Pulitzer Price image from Adrees Latif
© Adress Latif, Reuters.
From the Reuters blog, the story of Pulitzer Price Winner image by Adress Latif, the photo of Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai being shot in Myanmar during the protests in September last year. These are the stories that remind us the difficult circumstances that are faced by reporters around the work while documenting revolts and wars.
I had already locked on my 135mm lens and set my camera shutter speed to 1000, aperture to F/7.1 and ISO at 800. With the camera on manual, I wanted to stop any movement while offering as much depth-of-field as possible. Two minutes later, the shooting started. My eye caught a person flying backwards through the air. Instinctively, I started photographing, capturing four frames of the man on his back. The entry point of the bullet is clear in the first frame, with a soldier in flip flops standing over the man and pointing a rifle. In the second frame, the man is reaching over to try and film. More shots rang out. I flinched before getting off two more frames - one of the man pointing the camera at the soldier, and one of his face contorted in pain. Beyond him, the crowd scattered before the advancing soldier. The whole incident, which went on to reverberate around the world, was over in two seconds.
