APs Kashmir Lenseman Bags Prestigious Award

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JAMMU  & KASHMIR  :

Dar Yasin’s April 7, 2016 photograph of a militan’s funeral bagged it second position in Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar
Dar Yasin’s April 7, 2016 photograph of a militan’s funeral bagged it second position in Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar

KL NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar :

Photojournalist Dar Yasin, working for American news agency, Associated Press (AP), has bagged the prestigious Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar award.

Dar Yasin (AP)
Dar Yasin (AP)

His photograph was adjudged as the second best in the general news category.

The click that bagged the award is a photograph showing Kashmiri Muslims climbed on trees to watch the funeral procession of Waseem Malla, a suspected militant of Hizb ul Mujahideen, in Pehlipora. Clicked on Thursday, April 7, 2016 photo, the village where the funeral took place is more than 65 kms south of Srinagar.

Dar is a decorated photo-journalist whose clicks earlier have also brought him many laurels. He has been covering Kashmir for the AP for more than a decade now.

The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, America’s longest continuously operating photojournalism conference, started in 1973.  Its 2016 edition took place on November 11-12, 2016 at the Hilton Atlanta Northeast.

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