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PHOTO ACADEMY                                                    PHOTO ACADEMY


 FIAP Photo Academy Online Events Service


 By Paul Stanley EFIAP/p ESFIAP FIPF,
 Director  FIAP Photo Academy Online Events Service




                                                              Photo taken by Cathal McNaughton in India




 Photo Academy                                                                                                       Photo Academy
















          Photo taken by Cathal McNaughton
                recenty during Ukraine visit



 On Friday 23rd November 2023 the FIAP Photo Academy hosted a presentation by the
 Pulitzer Prize Winning Photojournalist, Cathal McNaughton.

 During his presentation Cathal explained to us how he became interested in photography and
 his photographic journey from the start to where he is now, as the only Irish person to win a Pulitzer
 Prize for his photography. He was awarded this prestigious prize in 2018 for his coverage of the
 Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
 Cathal started his career working
 for newspapers in Belfast, Northern
 Ireland. He then moved from there
 to work for Reuters and was the lead
 photographer for this agency in                                 Photo taken by Cathal McNaughton
 India. He now works for EPA Images                              recenty during Ukraine visit
 as a Managing Editor.

 During this presentation we
 looked at images spanning a 25
 year  career  documenting  the  best
 and worst of humanity. Cathal gave
 all who attended an insight into the
 emotional  strain  and  sacrifices  that
 need to be made in order to become
 Photo by Cathal McNaughton taken during his period of working in   a leading photojournalist.
 Belfast covering a funeral of one of the paramilitary people


 Cathal has travelled extensively documenting stories of world importance, most recently in Ukraine.  Photo taken by Cathal McNaughton in India
 If you haven’t seen Cathal’s work before do take a look at his website:
 https://www.cathal-mcnaughton.com/


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