3-time Pulitzer photographer du Cille dies

Photographer Michel du Cille, who won Pulitzer Prizes for his work in 1986, 1988 and 2008, died while covering Ebola in Liberia.

Michel du Cille

He collapsed after returning from a village in the Salala district of Liberia’s Bong County, where he had been working with Washington Post reporter Justin Jouvenal. He was transported over dirt roads to a hospital two hours away but died of an apparent heart attack.

du Cille’s most recent work on Ebola in Liberia was published on Dec. 7 in the Post. He won three Pulitzers — in 2008 for Public Service with Dana Priest and Anne Hull for their work on Walter Reed Hospital, in 1988 for his images for The Miami Herald on the crack epidemic, and in 1986 with Carol Guzy for their images of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz volcano.