du Cille becomes Post's AME for Photography
From the Washington Post internal announcement, obtained by FishbowlDC:
We are very pleased to announce that Michel du Cille, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and former deputy AME/Photo, will become Assistant Managing Editor for Photography, effective November 1.
Michel is one of the outstanding photojournalists of his generation.
He became a professional news photographer at the age of 17, before earning his bachelor’s degree in journalism at the University of Indiana. As a staff photographer at the Miami Herald from 1981 to 1988, he won two Pulitzer Prizes: for Spot News Photography with Carol Guzy for their coverage of the November, 1985 eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia and for Feature Photography for Michel’s 1987 photo essay on crack cocaine addicts in a Miami housing project.
He came to The Washington Post in 1988 as Picture Editor under Joe Elbert.
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