Robert Capa Gold Medal

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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]

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Winners

Year [3] RecipientOPCAwarded ForOrganization
1955 Howard Sochurek [2] 17Coverage of North Vietnam [4] Magnum for Life
1956John Sadovy [5] 18 Hungarian Revolution [6] Life
1957no award19
1958Paul Bruck [7] 20"Coverage of Lebanon" CBS News
1959Mario Biasetti [8] 21"Recording the Nicaragua [9] revolt from both sides at great risk"CBS News
1960Yung Su Kwon [10] 22"Coverage of Japanese riots at the time of James Hagerty's arrival" NBC News
1961no award23
1962Peter 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] 26Coverage of Vietnam Associated Press
1965Larry Burrows [12] 27"With a Brave Crew in a Deadly Flight" [15] Life
1966 Henri Huet [16] [17] 28Vietnam [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
1969Anonymous 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
1971Larry Burrows [24] 33"Coverage of war in Laotian war zone [25] "Life
1972Clive 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] 37Coverage of Vietnam Time
1976 Catherine Leroy [33] 38Coverage 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
1984James Nachtwey [41] 46"Photos of El Salvador" Black Star for Time
1985 Peter Magubane [42] 47"Cry for Justice: Cry for Peace"Time
1986James Nachtwey [41] 48"Island at War"Time/ GEO (German edition)
1987Janet Knott [43] 49"Democracy: What Price?" The Boston Globe
1988 Chris Steele-Perkins [44] 50"Graveside Terror" Magnum for Time Magazine
1989David 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
1994James 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
1998James 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
2000Chris 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]
2003Carolyn 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
2007John Moore [60] 69"The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto"Getty Images for Newsweek
2008Shaul Schwarz [61] 70"Kenya: The Wreckage of a Democracy"Getty Images for Newsweek
2009Khalil Hamra [62] 71"War in Gaza"Associated Press
2010Agnes Dherbeys [63] 72Violence Erupts in ThailandFreelance 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
2021Anonymous [79] 83"Myanmar in Turmoil"Getty Images

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