The Robert Capa Gold Medal is an award for "best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise". It is awarded annually by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). It was created in honor of the war photographer Robert Capa. The first Robert Capa Gold Medal was awarded in 1955 to Howard Sochurek.
Winners YearThe year of the award is the year of the work. From 2009, the recipient is named in April of the next year. Recipient OPC Awarded For Organization 1955 Howard Sochurek 17 Coverage of North Vietnam Magnum for Life 1956 John Sadovy 18 Hungarian Revolution Life 1957 no award 19 1958 Paul Bruck 20 "Coverage of Lebanon" CBS News 1959 Mario Biasetti 21 "Recording the Nicaragua revolt from both sides at great risk" CBS News 1960 Yung Su Kwon 22 "Coverage of Japanese riots at the time of James Hagerty's arrival" NBC News 1961 no award 23 1962 Peter Dehmel and Klaus Dehmel 24 "The Tunnel" NBC News 1963 Larry Burrows: "Larry Burrows" 25 "Jungle War in Vietnam" Life 1964 Horst Faas 26 Coverage of Vietnam Associated Press 1965 Larry Burrows 27 "With a Brave Crew in a Deadly Flight" Life 1966 Henri Huet 28 Vietnam Associated Press 1967 David Douglas Duncan 29 "Inside the Cone of Fire - Con Thien, Vietnam" Life and ABC News 1968 John Olson 30 "The Battle That Regained and Ruined Huế" Life 1969 Anonymous Czech photographer(Later revealed to be Josef Koudelka) 31 "From A Death to Remember" Look 1970 Kyoichi Sawada 32 "Coverage of war in Cambodia" United Press International 1971 Larry Burrows 33 "Coverage of war in Laotian war zone" Life 1972 Clive W. Limpkin 34 "Battle of Bogside" Penguin Books 1973 David Burnett, Raymond Depardon, and Chas Gerretsen 35 "Chile" Gamma Presse Images 1974 W. Eugene Smith 36 "Minamata, Japan: Life - Sacred and Profane" Camera 35 1975 Dirck Halstead 37 Coverage of Vietnam Time 1976 Catherine Leroy 38 Coverage of street fighting in Beirut. Gamma for Time 1977 Eddie Adams 39 "The Boat of No Smiles" The Associated Press 1978 Susan Meiselas 40 Nicaraguan Revolution Time 1979 Kaveh Golestan 41 "Coverage of the Iranian Revolution" Time 1980 Steve McCurry 42 "Undercover photography of Afghan rebels" Time 1981 Rudi Frey 43 Coverage in Poland Time 1982 Harry Mattison 44 "Coverage of guerilla warfare in El Salvador" Time 1983 James Nachtwey 45 "Lebanon" Time 1984 James Nachtwey 46 "Photos of El Salvador" Black Star for Time 1985 Peter Magubane 47 "Cry for Justice: Cry for Peace" Time 1986 James Nachtwey 48 "Island at War" Time/GEO (German edition) 1987 Janet Knott 49 "Democracy: What Price?" The Boston Globe 1988 Chris Steele-Perkins 50 "Graveside Terror" Magnum for Time Magazine 1989 David Turnley 51 "Revolutions in China and Romania" Black Star for The Detroit Free Press 1990 Bruce Haley 52 Civil war in Myanmar Black Star for U.S. News & World Report 1991 Christopher Morris 53 "Slaughter in Vukovar" Black Star for Time 1992 Luc Delahaye 54 "Sarajevo: Life in the War Zone" Sipa Press 1993 Paul Watson 55 "Mogadishu" The Toronto Star 1994 James Nachtwey 56 "Election Violence in South Africa" Magnum for Time Magazine 1995 Anthony Suau 57 "Grozny: Russia's Nightmare" Time 1996 Corinne Dufka 58 "Liberia: From a Dead Man's Wallet" Reuters 1997 Horst Faas/Tim Page 59 "Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina" Random House 1998 James Nachtwey 60 "Indonesia: Descent into Madness" Magnum for Time 1999 John Stanmeyer 61 "The Killing of Bernardino Guterres in Dili, East Timor" SABA for Time 2000 Chris Anderson 62 "Desperate Passage" Aurora for The New York Times Magazine, 2001 Luc Delahaye 63 "Afghanistan" Magnum for Newsweek 2002 Carolyn Cole 64 "Church of the Nativity: In the Center of the Siege" The Los Angeles Times 2003 Carolyn Cole 65 "Covering Conflict: Iraq and Liberia" The Los Angeles Times 2004 Ashley Gilbertson 66 "The Battle for Fallujah" Aurora for The New York Times 2005 Chris Hondros 67 "One Night In Tal Afar" Getty Images 2006 Paolo Pellegrin 68 "True Pain: Israel & Hizbullah" Magnum for Newsweek 2007 John Moore 69 "The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto" Getty Images for Newsweek 2008 Shaul Schwarz 70 "Kenya: The Wreckage of a Democracy" Getty Images for Newsweek 2009 Khalil Hamra 71 "War in Gaza" Associated Press 2010 Agnes Dherbeys 72 Violence Erupts in Thailand Freelance for The New York Times 2011 André Liohn 73 "Almost Dawn in Libya" Prospekt Photographers for Newsweek - International Committee of the Red Cross 2012 Fabio Bucciarelli 74 "Battle to Death" Freelance for AFP 2013 Tyler Hicks 75 "Attack on a Kenyan Mall" The New York Times 2014 Marcus Bleasdale 76 "Central African Republic Inferno" Human Rights Watch, National Geographic 2015 Bassam Khabieh 77 "Field Hospital Damascus" Reuters 2016 Bryan DentonSergey Ponomarev 78 "What ISIS Wrought" The New York Times 2017 Carol Guzy 79 "Scars Of Mosul: The Legacy of ISIS" Zuma Press 2018 Carolyn Van Houten 80 "The road to Asylum: Inside the migrant caravans" The Washington Post 2019 Dieu Nalio Chery 81 "Haiti: Nation on the Brink" Associated Press 2020 Kiana Hayeri 82 "Where Prison Is a Kind of Freedom" The New York Times Magazine 2021 Anonymous 83 "Myanmar in Turmoil" Getty Images2022Marcus Yam84"The First 30 Days of the War in Ukraine"Los Angeles Times2023Samar Abu Elouf85"Gaza"The New York Times2024Laura Boushnak and Nariman El-Mofty86"Gaza's Injured Children"The New York Times
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