Carolyn van Houten Wins 2019 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award | PDNPulse

Washington Post photographer Carolyn van Houten has won the 2019 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award from the Overseas Press Club for her coverage last fall of the caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States. Van Houten was honored at an awards ceremony in New York last week. Other photographers recognized at the ceremony were Maggie Steber, winner of the OPC President’s Award; Shiho Fukada, winner of the Feature Photographer Award; and Nariman El-Mofty, who won the Olivier Rebbot Award.