Robert Capa Gold Medal

The Robert Capa Gold Medal is an award for "best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise".^[1] It is awarded annually by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). It was created in honor of the war photographer Robert Capa.^[1] The first Robert Capa Gold Medal was awarded in 1955 to Howard Sochurek.^[2]

Winners

Year[3]	Recipient	OPC	Awarded For	Organization
1955	Howard Sochurek[2]	17	Coverage of North Vietnam[4]	Magnum for Life
1956	John Sadovy[5]	18	Hungarian Revolution[6]	Life
1957	no award	19
1958	Paul Bruck[7]	20	"Coverage of Lebanon"	CBS News
1959	Mario Biasetti[8]	21	"Recording the Nicaragua[9] revolt from both sides at great risk"	CBS News
1960	Yung Su Kwon[10]	22	"Coverage of Japanese riots at the time of James Hagerty's arrival"	NBC News
1961	no award	23
1962	Peter Dehmel and Klaus Dehmel[11]	24	"The Tunnel"	NBC News
1963	Larry Burrows[12]	25	"Jungle War in Vietnam"[13]	Life
1964	Horst Faas[14]	26	Coverage of Vietnam	Associated Press
1965	Larry Burrows[12]	27	"With a Brave Crew in a Deadly Flight"[15]	Life
1966	Henri Huet[16][17]	28	Vietnam[18]	Associated Press
1967	David Douglas Duncan[19]	29	"Inside the Cone of Fire - Con Thien, Vietnam"	Life and ABC News
1968	John Olson[20]	30	"The Battle That Regained and Ruined Huế"	Life
1969	Anonymous Czech photographer[21] (Later revealed to be Josef Koudelka)	31	"From A Death to Remember"	Look
1970	Kyoichi Sawada[22]	32	"Coverage of war in Cambodia[23]"	United Press International
1971	Larry Burrows[24]	33	"Coverage of war in Laotian war zone[25]"	Life
1972	Clive W. Limpkin[26]	34	"Battle of Bogside"	Penguin Books
1973	David Burnett,[27] Raymond Depardon,[28] and Chas Gerretsen[29]	35	"Chile"	Gamma Presse Images
1974	W. Eugene Smith[30]	36	"Minamata,[31] Japan: Life - Sacred and Profane"	Camera 35
1975	Dirck Halstead[32]	37	Coverage of Vietnam	Time
1976	Catherine Leroy[33]	38	Coverage of street fighting in Beirut.	Gamma for Time
1977	Eddie Adams[34]	39	"The Boat of No Smiles"	The Associated Press
1978	Susan Meiselas[35]	40	Nicaraguan Revolution	Time
1979	Kaveh Golestan[36]	41	"Coverage of the Iranian Revolution"	Time
1980	Steve McCurry[37]	42	"Undercover photography of Afghan rebels"	Time
1981	Rudi Frey[38]	43	Coverage in Poland[39]	Time
1982	Harry Mattison[40]	44	"Coverage of guerilla warfare in El Salvador"	Time
1983	James Nachtwey[41]	45	"Lebanon"	Time
1984	James Nachtwey[41]	46	"Photos of El Salvador"	Black Star for Time
1985	Peter Magubane[42]	47	"Cry for Justice: Cry for Peace"	Time
1986	James Nachtwey[41]	48	"Island at War"	Time/GEO (German edition)
1987	Janet Knott[43]	49	"Democracy: What Price?"	The Boston Globe
1988	Chris Steele-Perkins[44]	50	"Graveside Terror"	Magnum for Time Magazine
1989	David Turnley[45]	51	"Revolutions in China and Romania"	Black Star for The Detroit Free Press
1990	Bruce Haley[46]	52	Civil war in Myanmar	Black Star for U.S. News & World Report
1991	Christopher Morris[47]	53[47]	"Slaughter in Vukovar"	Black Star for Time
1992	Luc Delahaye[48]	54	"Sarajevo: Life in the War Zone"	Sipa Press
1993	Paul Watson[49]	55	"Mogadishu"	The Toronto Star
1994	James Nachtwey[41]	56	"Election Violence in South Africa"	Magnum for Time Magazine
1995	Anthony Suau[50]	57	"Grozny: Russia's Nightmare"	Time
1996	Corinne Dufka[51]	58	"Liberia: From a Dead Man's Wallet"	Reuters
1997	Horst Faas/Tim Page[52]	59	"Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina"	Random House
1998	James Nachtwey[41]	60	"Indonesia: Descent into Madness"	Magnum for Time
1999	John Stanmeyer[53]	61	"The Killing of Bernardino Guterres in Dili, East Timor"	SABA for Time
2000	Chris Anderson[54]	62[54]	"Desperate Passage"	Aurora for The New York Times Magazine,
2001	Luc Delahaye[48]	63	"Afghanistan"	Magnum for Newsweek
2002	Carolyn Cole[55]	64	"Church of the Nativity: In the Center of the Siege"	The Los Angeles Times[56]
2003	Carolyn Cole[55]	65	"Covering Conflict: Iraq and Liberia"	The Los Angeles Times
2004	Ashley Gilbertson[57]	66	"The Battle for Fallujah"	Aurora for The New York Times
2005	Chris Hondros[58]	67	"One Night In Tal Afar"	Getty Images
2006	Paolo Pellegrin[59]	68	"True Pain: Israel & Hizbullah"	Magnum for Newsweek
2007	John Moore[60]	69	"The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto"	Getty Images for Newsweek
2008	Shaul Schwarz[61]	70	"Kenya: The Wreckage of a Democracy"	Getty Images for Newsweek
2009	Khalil Hamra[62]	71	"War in Gaza"	Associated Press
2010	Agnes Dherbeys[63]	72	Violence Erupts in Thailand	Freelance for The New York Times
2011	André Liohn[64]	73	"Almost Dawn in Libya"	Prospekt Photographers for Newsweek - International Committee of the Red Cross
2012	Fabio Bucciarelli[65]	74	"Battle to Death"	Freelance for AFP
2013	Tyler Hicks[2]	75	"Attack on a Kenyan Mall"	The New York Times
2014	Marcus Bleasdale[66]	76	"Central African Republic Inferno"	Human Rights Watch, National Geographic
2015	Bassam Khabieh[67][68]	77[68]	"Field Hospital Damascus"	Reuters
2016	Bryan Denton Sergey Ponomarev[69]	78	"What ISIS Wrought"[70]	The New York Times[71][72]
2017	Carol Guzy[73]	79	"Scars Of Mosul: The Legacy of ISIS"[74]	Zuma Press[75]
2018	Carolyn Van Houten[76]	80	"The road to Asylum: Inside the migrant caravans"	The Washington Post
2019	Dieu Nalio Chery[77]	81	"Haiti: Nation on the Brink"	Associated Press
2020	Kiana Hayeri[78]	82	"Where Prison Is a Kind of Freedom"	The New York Times Magazine
2021	Anonymous[79]	83	"Myanmar in Turmoil"	Getty Images
2022	Marcus Yam[80]	84	"The First 30 Days of the War in Ukraine"	Los Angeles Times
2023	Samar Abu Elouf[81]	85	"Gaza"	The New York Times
2024	Laura Boushnak and Nariman El-Mofty[82]	86	"Gaza's Injured Children"	The New York Times