Kyōichi Sawada | |
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.jpg) Kyōichi Sawada (1965), and his work "Flight To Safety" | |
| Born | (1936-02-22)February 22, 1936 Aomori City,Aomori Prefecture, Japan |
| Died | October 28, 1970(1970-10-28) (aged 34) |
| Occupation | War photographer |
| Known for | Photographs of the Vietnam War |
Kyōichi Sawada (沢田 教一,Sawada Kyōichi; February 22, 1936, – October 28, 1970) was a Japanese photographer withUnited Press International who received the 1966Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his combat photography of theVietnam War during 1965. Two of those photographs were selected as "World Press Photos of the Year" in 1965 and 1966. The 1965 photograph shows a Vietnamese mother and children wading across a river to escape a US bombing.[1]
The famous 1966 photograph[2] shows U.S soldiers of the 1st Infantry division dragging a deadViet Cong fighter to a burial site behind theirM113 armored personnel carrier, after he was killed in a fierce night attack by several Viet Cong battalions against Australian forces during theBattle of Suoi Bong Trang on 24 February 1966.
He also documented theBattle of Hue in 1968, for example, capturing an image of Lance Corporal Don Hammons immediately after being wounded by enemy fire; Hammons died minutes later.[3]
On October 28, 1970, Sawada and Frank Frosch, UPIPhnom Penh branch chief, were ambushed by unknown assailants and assassinated while returning to Phnom Penh by car from a news-gathering outing toTakéo Province. The bodies of the two men were found abandoned in a rice paddy near the road, riddled with bullet holes. No blood or bullet holes were found in their car, suggesting that they had been dragged from their vehicle and killed execution-style. There was no chance they had been mistaken for soldiers since they were driving in a civilian car and were wearing brightly colored civilian clothing.[4][5]
Sawada was born inAomori, Japan and graduated fromAomori High School. He bought his first camera at age 13 with money he earned from delivering newspapers. After high school he worked at a camera shop on the United StatesMisawa Air Base inAomori Prefecture.[6]
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