AP photographers honored in 2020 Pulitzer Prize for their breaking news in photography

A demonstrator seeks help for a woman who was shot during clashes with national police officers as the demonstrators demanded the resignation of President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 7, 2019. The image was part of a series of photographs by Associated Press photographers which was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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.

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Source: Associated Press