IU alumnus and Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Michel du Cille died at the age of 58.
He was on assignment for the Washington Post when he collapsed after suffering an apparent heart attack, according to the Post.
He recently covered the Ebola outbreak in Liberia.
Du Cille graduated from IU ?in 1985.
He had since won three Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of Columbia’s Nevado Del Ruiz volcano and crack cocaine addicts for the Miami Herald, and of treatment of wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center for the Washington Post.
Du Cille visited IU on Jan. 22 to present to journalism students in a class about Pulitzer Prize winners.
While at IU, du Cille served as photo editor of the Indiana Daily Student.
“We are all heartbroken,” Martin Baron, executive editor at the Washington Post, said in a release. “We have lost a beloved colleague and one of the world’s most accomplished photographers.”
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, du Cille had also worked for the Louisville Courier as an intern and for the Gainesville Times in Gainesville, Ga. in high school.
He received his Master of Science in journalism from Ohio ?University.
Emily Ernsberger
