AP photographers named finalists for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
In a year when protests arose across the globe, AP photographers Dieu-Nalio Chery and Rebecca Blackwell were Pulitzer finalists for the breaking news photography award for their coverage of violent clashes between police and anti-government demonstrators in Haiti.
Bullet fragments hit Chery in the jaw while he documented the unrest. He kept taking pictures, including images of the fragments that hit him.
Haiti: Nation on the Brink | by Dieu Nalio Chery and Rebecca Blackwell
About the photographers
Dieu Nalio Chery
Dieu Nalio Chery was born in Haiti in 1981. In 2011 Chery was selected for a full scholarship attending a photojournalism workshop in Argentina. He started in Mexico for Associated Press as a photojournalist in 2012. Chery works on various news, breaking and feature, from his home base in Haiti. He attended the magnum Foundation Photography and Human Rights workshop 2015 and has won numerous awards for his work, including most recently the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club of America.
Rebecca Blackwell
Rebecca Blackwell is an AP photographer based in Mexico City since 2014. Her work has spanned a wide range of subjects, including immigration, natural disasters, and multiple Olympics and World Cups. Blackwell joined AP’s staff in 2007 while living in Dakar, Senegal, where she spent 10 years covering social issues, elections, coups, and the occasional conflict, across two dozen African countries.