Daniel Berehulak Receives 2014 Chris Hondros Fund Award
Daniel Berehulak Receives 2014 Chris Hondros Fund Award
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Kashmiri muslims gather to protest the death of teenager Zahid Farooq during his funeral procession on the outskirts of Srinagar, Kashmir, India, on Feb. 6, 2010. Relatives say Farooq was shot dead by Indian security forces.Daniel Berehulak—Getty Images
Australian photojournalist Daniel Berehulak has won the 2014 Chris Hondros Fund Award and American photographer Preston Gannaway has been named finalist.
Berehulak will receive a $20,000 grant and Gannaway will receive a $5,000 grant to support their photography. Berehulak began his career working as a sports photographer and later focused on politics and news. He is probably best known for his work covering the Iraq war, the trial of Saddam Hussein, child labor in India and the return of Benazir Bhutto to Pakistan. Gannaway’s work often focuses on families and subcultures. She was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for her series covering Carolynne St. Pierre’s terminal illness.
“Having known Chris, it’s pretty overwhelming even being considered for it,” Berehulak tells TIME. “I looked up to him kind of like an older brother — the first time I went to Iraq I emailed Chris. I always looked to him for advice.”
The Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award was established by Hondros’s fiancée Christina Piaia to honor the photojournalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee who was killed on April 20, 2011 while on assignment in Misrata, Libya.
“Chris was not only an incredible journalist, but an incredible human being,” Berehulak adds. “He worked with such an integrity and passion — showing the human side of conflict.”
Berehulak aims to use the award to support a personal project. Previous recipients of the fund include Tomás Munita and Andrea Bruce.
Kashmiri muslims gather to protest the death of teenager Zahid Farooq during his funeral procession on the outskirts of Srinagar, Kashmir, India, on Feb. 6, 2010. Relatives say Farooq was shot dead by Indian security forces.Daniel Berehulak—Getty ImagesA man and a boy, displaced by floods, walk through flood waters in the village of Baseera near Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan, Aug. 22, 2010.Daniel Berehulak—Getty ImagesLocal residents scramble to recover water bottles dropped from a Pakistan Air force helicopter in Nowshera, Pakistan, August 2, 2010.Daniel Berehulak—Getty ImagesVillagers, displaced from their homes by flooding, hold empty containers as they queue for soup and relief rations in the Sultan Colony Army flood relief camp near Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan, August 25, 2010. Daniel Berehulak—Getty ImagesPine trees, uprooted by a tsunami, lay strewn over the beach in Rikuzentakata, Japan, March 07, 2012.Daniel Berehulak—Getty ImagesA young girl, displaced by floods and stranded on land only accessible by air, sleeps covered in flies on a makeshift bed in Garhi Khairo near Jacobabad in Sindh province, Pakistan, Aug. 27, 2010.Daniel Berehulak—Getty ImagesYoung girls, whose families were displaced by floods, sit on a makeshift bed, as they take shelter on higher ground of a bund in Thatta, Sindh province, Pakistan, Aug. 29, 2010.Daniel Berehulak—Getty ImagesFlood victims scramble for food rations as they battle the downwash from a Pakistan Army helicopter during relief operations on in the village of Goza in Dadu district in Sindh province, Pakistan, Sept. 13, 2010.Daniel Berehulak—Getty ImagesVillagers perform the Maghrib prayer as they seek refuge on the roof of a madrasah surrounded by flood waters, after breaking their fast during Ramadan in the village of Vasandawali, Punjab, Pakistan, Aug. 21, 2010.Daniel Berehulak—Getty ImagesAn Afghan Pashtun boy, forced from the troubled province of Baglan due to threats from the Taliban, looks on as as he scavenges for recyclables at a garbage site in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 14, 2012.Daniel Berehulak—Getty ImagesEgyptians celebrate the election of their new president Mohamad Morsi in Tahrir Square, Cairo, June 24, 2012.Daniel Berehulak—Getty Images
