DANISH SIDDIQUI, THE MAN WHO DARED TO

CAPTURE REALITY

Danish Siddiqui (19 May 1983 – 15 July 2021) was only 38 years.
Siddiqui started his career as a TV News correspondent for the
“Hindustan Times” media house before switching to the TV Today
Network. After some years he switched his career to photography and
then he had joined the renowned international news agency Reuters as
an intern in 2010.

Danish Siddiqui was born on 19 May 1983 into a Muslim family in New
Delhi, and he was one of 4 siblings in his family. Danish Siddiqui has
pursued his schooling from Fr. Agnel School in South New Delhi. He got
his admission to Delhi’s one of the most famous universities “Jamia
Millia Islamia” where he completed his bachelor’s degree in Economics.
Further, he decided to pursue his master’s in Mass Communication from
the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia in the year
2007.

Danish was killed in a war conflict area on July 16, 2021, while covering
fighting between Afghan troops and the Taliban.

Mohammad Akhtar Siddiqui said in a voice full of grief and pride as he

remembered his “brilliant and dashing” photojournalist son, Danish
Siddiqui, that “He was an extremely emotional person”.
As a photojournalist, Danish has covered several important stories in
Asia, Middle East and Europe. Some of his works include covering the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Rohingya refugee’s crisis, Hong Kong
protests, Nepal earthquakes, Mass Games in North Korea and living
conditions of asylum seekers in Switzerland. He has also produced a
photo series on Muslim converts in England.

He was part of a team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature
Photography in 2018 for documenting Myanmar’s Rohingya refugee
crisis, a series described by the judging committee as “shocking
photographs that exposed the world to the violence Rohingya refugees
faced in fleeing Myanmar.”

A Reuters photographer since 2010, Siddiqui’s work has spanned wars

in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Rohingya crisis, pro-democracy protests in
Hong Kong and unrest in India.

Danish’s work has been widely published in scores of magazines,

newspapers, slideshows and galleries – including National Geographic
Magazine, New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wall
Street Journal, Time Magazine, Forbes, Newsweek, NPR, BBC, CNN, Al
Jazeera, South China Morning Post, The Straits Times, Bangkok Post,
Sydney Morning Herald, The LA Times, Boston Globe, The Globe and
Mail, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Stern, Berliner Zeitung, The
Independent, The Telegraph, Gulf News, Libèration and various other
publications.

In 2018, Danish Siddiqui and his colleague Adnan Abidi won the Pulitzer
Prize for feature photography for documenting the Rohingya refugee
crisis as part of a Reuters team.
PHOTOS CLICKED BY DANISH SIDDIQUI
Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui