Bangladeshi photojournalist in Pulitzer winning photography team

Mohammad Ponir Hossain, a Bangladeshi photojournalist, is one of the photography staff of Reuters team that won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography documenting the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh, reports United Ne-ws of Bangladesh and Reuters. 
The Reuters photography staff was honoured for images of the violence endured by the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, as they fled Myanmar for Bangladesh, according to global media reports.
‘The extraordinary photography of the mass exodus of the Rohingya people to Bangladesh demonstrates not only the human cost of conflict but also the essential role photojournalism can play in revealing it,’ Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen J Adler said.
One of Ponir’s photos selected for the prize was taken on November 12, 2017 showing Myanmar’s Rohingyas cross the Naf River with an impoverished raft to reach Teknaf in Bangladesh.
In a Facebook post Ponir , a photographer of Thomson Reuters, said, ‘Such a great news!!!! Reuters staff has won Pulitzer Prize in feature photography category for exposing violence against Rohingya refugees in Myanmar. I’m so proud to be part of the team.’ 
Reuters also won Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting for exposing the methods of police killing squads in Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. 
The Pulitzers have been awarded since 1917, after being established in the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. The 17-member Pulitzer board is made up of past winners and other distinguished journalists and academics.
It chose the winners in 14 journalism categories plus seven that recognize fiction, drama, history, biography, poetry, general nonfiction and music.

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