Mohammad Ponir Hossain, a Bangladeshi photojournalist, is a member of the photography team of Reuters that won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
Hossain was a part of the photography team which was documenting the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh, reports UNB citing Reuters.
The Reuters photography staff was honoured for images of the violence endured by the Rohingya refugees.
"The extraordinary photography of the mass exodus of the Rohingya people to Bangladesh demonstrates not only the human cost of conflict but also the essential role photojournalism can play in revealing it," Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen J Adler said.
Ponir's photo was taken on November 12, 2017 showing Myanmar's Rohingyas cross the Naf River with an impoverished raft to reach Teknaf in Bangladesh.
Reuters won Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for international reporting and photography.
The Pulitzers, the most prestigious awards in American journalism, recognised Reuters in international reporting for exposing the methods of police killing squads in Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, and for feature photography documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
In a Facebook post Ponir , a photographer of Thomson Reuters, said," Such a great news!!!! Reuters staff has won Pulitzer Prize in feature photography category for exposing violence against Rohingya refugees in Myanmar. I'm so proud to be part of the team."
