The Robert Capa Gold Medal is an award for "best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise". It is awarded annually by the

Overseas Press Club The Overseas Press Club of America (OPC) was founded in 1939 in New York City by a group of foreign correspondents. The wire service reporter Carol Weld was a founding member, as was the war correspondent Peggy Hull. The club seeks to maintain ...

of America (OPC). It was created in honor of the war photographer

Robert Capa Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann; October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist as well as the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taro. He is considered by some t ...

. The first Robert Capa Gold Medal was awarded in 1955 to

Howard Sochurek Howard Sochurek (27 November 1924 – 25 April 1994) was an American photojournalist. Life and career Howard J. Sochurek was born in 1924 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from Princeton University in 1942 then enlisted on 1 December that ye ...

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* {{Robert Capa American journalism awards Photojournalism awards Photography awards Awards established in 1955 1955 establishments in the United States