The Legacy of Danish Siddiqui

Danish Siddiqui was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who served as the Chief Photographer and headed the Reuters multimedia team in India.

Before his foray into photojournalism, Danish was a television correspondent with India’s leading news networks. 

As a photojournalist, Danish covered several important stories in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. His works included covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the COVID-19 pandemic in India, Indian citizenship law protests, Sri Lanka Easter bombing victims, the Rohingya refugee crisis, Hong Kong protests, Nepal earthquakes, the Mass Games in North Korea, and living conditions of asylum seekers in Switzerland.

Danish’s work got widely published in scores of magazines, newspapers, slideshows, and galleries – including National Geographic Magazine, New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Forbes, Newsweek, NPR, BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, South China Morning Post, The Straits Times, Bangkok Post, Sydney Morning Herald, The LA Times, Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Stern, Berliner Zeitung, The Independent, The Telegraph, Gulf News, Libèration and various other publications.

Danish had been honored with various photojournalism awards in the USA, England, China, Hong Kong, India, etc.