Lorenzo Tugnoli (born 1979) is an Italian photojournalist, based in Beirut. He won the 2019

Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography is one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It recognizes a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or phot ...

Life and work

Tugnoli was born and raised in

Lugo, Emilia-Romagna Lugo ( rgn, Lùgh) is a town and ''comune'' in the northern Italy, Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, in the province of Ravenna. History A settlement in where is now the city is mentioned for the first time in 782 AD, but the names Lucus appears o ...

, Italy. He worked as a

photojournalist Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such ...

in the

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before moving to

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

, Afghanistan in 2010, where he lived and worked before moving to Beirut, Lebanon in 2015.

Publications

*''The Little Book of Kabul.'' 2014. Photographs by Tugnoli, text by Francesca Recchia.

Awards

*2019: Winner,

for photo storytelling of the

famine in Yemen A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, natural disasters, crop failure, population imbalance, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accomp ...

published in '' The Washington Post'' *2019: Nominee, World Press Story of the Year, World Press Photo, Amsterdam *2019: Winner, General news, stories, World Press Photo, Amsterdam *2020: Winner, Contemporary Issues, Stories, World Press Photo *2021: Winner, Spot News, Stories, World Press Photo

References

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* Italian photographers Italian photojournalists Living people 1979 births {{Photographer-stub