An elderly couple in Spain kissed through plastic film because of COVID-19. An AP photographer just won a Pulitzer for photographing the moment. – Poynter

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An elderly couple in Spain kissed through plastic film because of COVID-19. An AP photographer just won a Pulitzer for photographing the moment. – Poynter

Associated Press photographer Emilio Morenatti won the 2021 prize in Feature Photography for his yearlong work in Spain photographing the elderly.

via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2021/an-elderly-couple-in-spain-kissed-through-plastic-film-because-of-covid-19-an-ap-photographer-just-won-a-pulitzer-for-photographing-the-moment/

Emilio Morenatti began photographing the elderly in Spain during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when it was decimating communities throughout Europe, and provided a glimpse into what was happening to the most vulnerable populations internationally for the remainder of the year.