Awards & Winners

Ky?ichi Sawada

Kyōichi Sawada was a Japanese photographer with United Press International who received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his combat photography of the Vietnam War during 1965. Two of these photographs were selected as "World Press Photos of the Year" in 1965 and 1966. The 1965 photograph shows a Vietnamese mother and children wading across a river to escape a US bombing. The famous 1966 photograph shows U.S soldiers of the 1st Infantry division dragging a dead Viet Cong fighter to a burial site behind their M113 armored personnel carrier, after he was killed in a fierce night attack by several Viet Cong battalions against Australian forces during the Battle of Long Tan on 18 August 1966. Sawada died together with Frank Frosch, UPI bureau chief, in 1970 while on their way to the Kirrirom Pass in Cambodia.

Awards by Ky?ichi Sawada

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ky?ichi Sawada.

1966


World Press Photo Award for Spot News
Honored for : 1966 World Press Photo Award for Spot News winning photo
(News Single)
World Press Photo Award for Spot News
Honored for : 1966 World Press Photo Award for Spot News winning photo
(News Single)
World Press Photo of the Year
Honored for : World Press Photo of the Year 1966
Pulitzer Prize for Photography
(For his combat photography of the war in Vietnam War during 1965.)

Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Press Photo of the Year World Press Photo of the Year 1966
World Press Photo Award for Spot News 1966 World Press Photo Award for Spot News winning photo
News Single
World Press Photo Award for Spot News 1966 World Press Photo Award for Spot News winning photo
News Single

1965


World Press Photo Award for Spot News
Honored for : World Press Photo of the Year 1965
(Single)
World Press Photo of the Year
Honored for : World Press Photo of the Year 1965

Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Press Photo of the Year World Press Photo of the Year 1965
World Press Photo Award for Spot News World Press Photo of the Year 1965
Single