Pulitzer-prize winner du Cille dies covering Ebola in Liberia
Photojournalist Michel du Cille, a three-times Pulitzer Prize winner who recently chronicled Ebola patients and their caretakers, has died in Liberia while on assignment for the Washington Post. He was 58.
Executive editor Martin Baron sent a statement to the newspaper’s staff informing them of du Cille’s death and calling du Cille “one of the world’s most accomplished photographers”.
The Post reported that du Cille collapsed yesterday while returning on foot from a Liberian village where he had been working on an assignment. He was taken to a hospital two hours away and was declared dead of an apparent heart attack.
Du Cille won two Pulitzer Prizes as a photographer with the Miami Herald in the 1980s and shared a third, for public service, while at the Post in 2008.
Washington Post obituary
