Kyoichi sawada biography definition

教一 沢田

Photographerphotojournalist

Kyōichi Sawada was a Japanese photographer. Time called him "the best, certainly the most daring photographer working for UPI in Indochina." Kyōichi Sawada won the Pulitzer Prize in

Background

Kyoichi Sawada was born on February 22, , in Aomori, Japan.

Career

Kyōichi Sawada was a combat photographer of the Vietnam War during He was captured once and narrowly escaped death innumerable times. He also documented the Battle of Hue in , for example capturing an image of Lance Corporal Don Hammons immediately after being wounded by enemy fire; he died minutes later.

Kyōichi Sawada died together with Frank Frosch, UPI Phnom Penh branch chief, in while on their way to the Kirrirom Pass in Cambodia.

Achievements

• Kyōichi Sawada received the Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his combat photography of the Vietnam War during Two of these photographs were se