Is best known for his picture's in the Vietnam War.
Winner, with Michel Laurent, of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography, "[f]or their picture series, 'Death in Dacca'".
Winner of the 1965 Pulitzer Prize in Photography, "[f]or his combat photography of the war in South Viet Nam during 1964".
Combat photographer.
He covered wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Algeria in the late 1950s, and was sent to Vietnam in 1962. He was seriously injured in a jungle rocket attack in 1967, but remained in Vietnam until 1973.