International News Safety Institute

11 December 2014

Michel du Cille

Incident

Washington Post photographer dies on assignment in Liberia

Cause of death

Other accident

Details

The Post’s executive editor Martin Baron sent a statement to the newspaper staff in which he called Du Cille “a beloved colleague and one of the world’s most accomplished photographers”. He spent several years as the Post’s director of photography and as an assistant managing editor. Born in 1956 in Kingston, Jamaica, Du Cille moved to the US, to Georgia, in the 1970s. His wife, Nikki Kahn, is also a Post photographer. See the original story here.

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