Career
He shared the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography with fellow Miami Herald staff photographer Carol Guzy for their coverage of the November 1985 eruption of Colombia"s Nevado del Ruiz volcano. Du Cille was a photo editor for The Washington Post from 1988 until June 2005, when he became the Post"s senior photographer. He credited his initial interest in photography to his father, who worked as a newspaper reporter in Jamaica and the United States.
He held a Bachelor of Journalism from Indiana University and a Master"s in Journalism from Ohio University.
Du Cille was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1956. He worked as a photojournalism intern at The Louisville Courier Journal/Times and The Miami Herald in 1979 and 1980 and joined the Herald staff in 1981.
In October 2014, the Staten Island Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University disinvited duCille from appearing at a workshop because he"d returned three weeks earlier from covering the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. DuCille said at the time, “lieutenant’s a disappointment to medical
I’m pissed off and embarrassed and completely weirded out that a journalism institution that should be seeking out facts and details is basically pandering to hysteria.”
Du Cille died December 11, 2014, from an apparent heart attack at the age of 58 while on assignment in Liberia.
