WASHINGTON (AP) – Photojournalist Michel du Cille, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who recently chronicled Ebola patients and their caretakers, has died in Liberia while on assignment for The Washington Post. He was 58.
Executive Editor Martin Baron sent a statement to the newspaper staff informing them of du Cille’s death. Baron called du Cille “one of the world’s most accomplished photographers.”
The Post (http://wapo.st/1vX29xD ) reported du Cille collapsed Thursday while returning on foot from a Liberian village where he’d been working on an assignment. He was taken to a hospital two hours away and was declared dead of an apparent heart attack.
Du Cille won two Pulitzer Prizes as a photographer with the Miami Herald in the 1980s and shared a third, for public service, while at the Post in 2008.