Kyōichi Sawada was a Japanese photographer. He was born in 1936 and died 34 years later, murdered in Cambodia. He is the person in charge of registering one of the most famous photos that illustrate the terror of the war of Vietnam. This photo, taken in 1965, shows to a mother and to his children crossing a river to escape of a North American bombing. Thanks to this photo Kyōichi Sawada it received on the following year the Award Pulitzer of Photo.
Also it is known by a photo of the year 1966. In her there is seen a group of soldiers of the United States dragging with his armoured vehicle a dead combatant (this one knows the photo next). This photo, as the previous one, was a winner of World Press Photo.
Without doubts, Kyōichi Sawada is an inevitable one inside the documentary photo of the XXth century. It offers us one of the best examples of the documentary photo and especially, of the tragedy of the war.
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