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WHO would have thought what started as a dream has become a reality for Dr Felicia Genie Tersan – the first female teacher from the Iban community to receive a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) from Columbia University in New York, one of the world's leading universities in the United States of America.
Kevin Carter is the author of a photo that has become a symbol of an emaciated continent: for “The vulture and the little girl”, the member of the famous Bang Bang Club was awarded the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. A few weeks later, Carter is dead. In April 1994, 14 months after capturing that memorable scene,…
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A Rohingya refugee pulls a child as they walk to the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Shah Porir Dwip in 2017 (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
Danish Siddiqui, the Reuters journalist killed in crossfire last Friday when he was covering the war in Afghanistan, was a largely self-taught photographer who scaled the heights of his profession while documenting wars, riots and human suffering.
A native of New Delhi, Siddiqui, 38, is survived by his wife Rike and two young children.
He was part of a team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2018 for documenting Myanmar’s Rohingya refugee crisis, a series described by the judging committee as “shocking photographs that exposed the world to the violence Rohingya refugees faced in fleeing Myanmar”.