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author: Matthias Kretschmann
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date: 2008-04-10 13:16:47+00:00
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title: The story behind the Pulitzer picture
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Two days ago [I posted links to the winning photographers of the Pulitzer Price 2008](http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/04/pulitzer-price-winners-2008-announced-various-photographers-awarded/). Now Adrees Latif, who won in the category Breaking News Photography for his picture of the japanese videographer Kenji Nagai shot down during riots in Myanmar in 2007, [reveales the story behind the picture in the Reuters Blog](http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2008/04/07/the-story-behind-the-pictures/):



> Within minutes, the crowd swelled from hundreds to a few thousand. The soldiers threw barbed wire coils across the roads.
Knowing that hundreds of people were gunned down in similar circumstances in a 1988 uprising, I climbed an old crosswalk directly overhead, to get to one of the few spots offering a clear view...



[Read the whole story on the Reuters Blog](http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2008/04/07/the-story-behind-the-pictures/)