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The basics
Quick facts
Intro
Indian Kashmiri Journalist
A.K.A.
Chennai Anand
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
(Jammu and Kashmir, India)
Employers:
Associated Press
USA
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Channi Anand is an Indian photographer and journalist. He was one of three photojournalists from the Associated Press to win the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2020 for his pictures of India's lockdown of Kashmir.
Works
He has covered India-Pakistan border violence, political developments, stories of displacement due to the earthquakes in South Asia. He has worked at Associated Press since 2000. Channi Anand is a resident of Jammu Kashmir.
Achievement
In August 2019, Anand along with two other photojournalists, Dar Yasin and Mukhtar Khan, won the most prestigious photojournalism award, the Pulitzer, for covering the unprecedented situation in Indian-administered Kashmir.