Scenes from disease crisis win Pulitzer award

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April 21, 2015 5:14 PM

Daniel Berehulak who covered the Ebola crisis in West Africa extensively was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for The New York Times.

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Captured scenes from the deadly Ebola crisis has earned the top prize in photo journalism.

Daniel Berehulak who covered the Ebola crisis in West Africa extensively was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for The New York Times.

Berehulak, a freelance photographer who works mostly for the Times, spent four months since August covering the Ebola crisis in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

As New York Times reports, as he covered the story’s full arc, he took few breaks and many precautions.

Speaking on the win, he said:

“This award makes me think of all the people that shared their lives with me so that I was able to document this ghastly and horrible virus. It preys on our humanity, on everything that makes us human. People can’t hold their loved ones in their last dying moments because that’s when the virus is the most potent.”

On spending 67 straight days in the Ebola-ravaged region before taking a break, Berehulak said:

“was being ravaged and there were bodies lying in the street. Burial teams couldn’t pick up bodies fast enough, and the Ebola treatment facilities were overflowing. I felt it was my responsibility to stay there for as long as I could because my photographs were being seen by people around the world.”

Check out Berehulak's Pulitzer Award winning photos above.

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