Name Alan Diaz | Role Photographer | |
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Awards Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, World Press Photo Award for Spot News Similar Craig F Walker, Carol Guzy, Mary Chind Willie | ||
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Alan Diaz (born 1947) is an American photographer who won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his photograph of the United States Border Patrol's BORTAC team's seizure of Elian Gonzalez.
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Diaz was born and raised in New York City and moved to Cuba with his family in 1964. In Cuba, Diaz became a teacher and studied photography with Cuban photographer Korda (Alberto Diaz Gutierrez). He moved to Miami in 1978 and became a photographer and English teacher. He joined the Associated Press as a freelance photographer in 1994 and became a staff photographer in 2000.
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