Michel du Cille (January 24, 1956 – December 11, 2014) was a Jamaican-born American

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who won three Pulitzer Prizes. He shared the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography with fellow ''

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'' staff photographer Carol Guzy for their coverage of the November 1985 eruption of

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's Nevado del Ruiz volcano. He won the 1988 Feature Photography Pulitzer for a photo essay on

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addicts in a Miami housing project ("photographs portraying the decay and subsequent rehabilitation of a housing project overrun by the drug crack"). '' The Washington Post'' received the

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for his work, with reporters Dana Priest and

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, "in exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials." Du Cille was a photo editor for ''The Washington Post'' from 1988 until June 2005, when he became the ''Post's'' senior photographer. He credited his initial interest in photography to his father, who worked as a newspaper reporter in Jamaica and the United States. He held a Bachelor of Journalism from Indiana University and a Master's in Journalism from Ohio University. Du Cille was born in

Kingston, Jamaica Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley Inter ...

, in 1956. He worked as a photojournalism intern at ''The Louisville Courier Journal/Times'' and ''The Miami Herald'' in 1979 and 1980 and joined the ''Herald'' staff in 1981. In October 2014, the

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disinvited du Cille from appearing at a workshop because he'd returned three weeks earlier from covering the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. Du Cille said at the time, "It's a disappointment to me. I'm pissed off and embarrassed and completely weirded out that a journalism institution that should be seeking out facts and details is basically pandering to hysteria." Du Cille died December 11, 2014, from an apparent heart attack at the age of 58 while on assignment in Liberia.

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Photo essays by Michel du Cille: * January, 2000
Sierra Leone, The Other War
- ''The Washington Post Magazine''. * September, 2003

- ''The Washington Post''. * October, 2003

- ''The Washington Post''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Du cille, Michel 1956 births 2014 deaths American photojournalists Jamaican emigrants to the United States Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography winners Pulitzer Prize for Photography winners Miami Herald people The Washington Post people People from Kingston, Jamaica