Twenty Years Later

• Prize
  Shortlist
• Photographer
  Deanne Fitzmaurice, United States
• Category
  Americas
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  http://www.deannefitzmaurice.com
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On Oct. 10, 2003, as he walked home from school, a 9-year-old Iraqi boy named Saleh Khalaf picked up something on the roadside that looked to him like a toy ball. Seconds later it exploded ripping open his abdomen, tearing off his hands, and blowing out his left eye. Days afterward, Saleh’s father, Raheem, persuaded doctors at a U.S. Air Force base to perform emergency surgery to keep his son alive. It marked the beginning of an international mercy mission to save the boy whose indomitable spirit earned him the nickname Lion Heart. Saleh was airlifted to America for life-saving treatment.

Deanne Fitzmaurice is a Pulitzer Prize winning photographerHer work has been published in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, the NY Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, ESPN Magazine, and People Magazine. She has won the prestigious Casey Medal and the Associated Press?s Mark Twain Award, in addition to awards from the Society of Professional Journalists , National Press Photographers Association, Best of Photojournalism, Pictures of the Year International.

Awards Pulitzer Prize 2005