# Robert Capa Gold Medal

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

| 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 | 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 Denton Sergey 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 Images |