Mohammad Ponir Hossain, a Bangladeshi shutterbug, is one of the photography faculty of Reuters team that won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography chronicle the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
The Reuters photography staff was dignified for images of the assault endured by the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, as they fled Myanmar for Bangladesh, according to overall media reports.
The outstanding photography of the mass exodus of the Rohingya people to Bangladesh demonstrates not only the human cost of conflict but also the necessary role photojournalism can play in revealing it.
Ponir’s photo was taken on November 12, 2017 showing Myanmar’s Rohingyas cross the Naf River with an barren raft to reach Teknaf in Bangladesh.
Reuters won Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for universal reporting and photography.
The Pulitzers, the most esteem awards in American journalism, accepted Reuters in universal reporting for exposing the arrangement of police killing squads in Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, and for feature photography chronicle the Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar and 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 division for bare assault against Rohingya refugees in Myanmar. I'm so proud to be part of the team.