Kyoichi sawada biography
Kyoichi sawada biography
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After graduating from Aomori Prefectural High School, Kyoichi Sawada (Aomori City, Japan 1936 - Cambodia 1970) worked in a photography store on the US military base at Misawa, while studying photography.
In 1961, he moved to Tokyo, where he became a photographer for the Tokyo branch of the news agency United Press International (UPI), after having been introduced by one of the American military officials at the air base. As the Vietnam War escalated, Sawada, repeatedly, asked UPI for a transfer to Indochina, but was denied on the grounds that the war was an ‘American conflict’.
In February 1965, he used his vacation to go to Vietnam and cover the conflict on his own.
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His photos convinced UPI to assign him to their bureau in Saigon. Within the same year, he won the World Press Photo of the Year Award, the Pulitzer Prize, an Overseas Press Club award, and the US Camera Achievement Award for his photograph of the Vietnamese family fleeing bombardment by swimming across a river.
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