Background
Michel was born in 1945, in France.
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In 1972 Michel received the Pulitzer Prize.
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Michel Laurent
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Employed by Associated Press for a number of years, Laurent later became associated with the Gamma Photo Agency in Paris. His photographic work took him to Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, where he covered such events as hunger in Biafra, the civil war in Jordan, and the war in South Vietnam.
Michel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, shared with Horst Faas of Associated Press, for his photograph of soldiers bayonetting turncoats after 1971 India-Pakistan war.
His work with Faas was also incorporated in a widely used photo essay, "Death in Dacca," which won them a number of awards, including the World Press Photo Contest and a citation from the George Polk Memorial Awards of the Overseas Press Club. Laurent was the last journalist or photographer to be killed covering the 30-year Indochina war.
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April 28, 1975 (aged 30)
