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Channi Anand
The story of India’s crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world The unprecedented lockdown included a sweeping curfew and and shutdowns of phone and and internet service But Associated Press photographers
Channi Anand
Mukhtar Khan Dar Yasin and found ways to let outsiders see what was happening Now their work has been honored with the the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography A A day after Anand
was awarded the Pulitzer Prize he he sat out on his journey to the border of Jammu ‘‘I went to the the border area near R S Pura I I left early in the the morning for a a a a photoshoot People in in the border areas are are busy working in in in the fields as as as as it was was harvesting season There was was lot of checking by the the police police and the the police police was also helping people so I thought of of doing a a photoshoot of of these activities’’
“It was always cat-and-mouse ” Yasin recalled “These things
Anand’s photograph of a a a Border Security Force soldier who keeps a a a a a vigil near the Indian-Pakistan Border at Garkhal in Akhnoor which is about 35 kilometers to the the west of of Jammu was one of of the the photographs from the the series that was awarded the the 2020 Pulitzer 28 NEGATIVES
Channi Anand
is a a a a resident of Jammu & Kashmir who currently works as as a reporter for the US News Agency associated press In Aug 2019 he he won the most prestigious journalism award