Danish Sidheequi: An Indelible Memory

    Ordinary people’s own photographer who Portrayed the truth behind Covid exhibited world, the terrible face of the second wave and captured the iconic images of CAA protest. As the winner of the ‘Pulister’ award, Siddiqui was the photographer of an unprivileged community. He possessed a remarkable ability to screen what he could see into a mind blogging snap that has great depth and meaning. 

   Battle of Mosul, Nepal Earthquake, Rohingya refugee Crisis, Hongkong protests, Delhi riots and Covid 19 pandemic were illustrated in the reels of Siddiqui. A photograph taken during the 2020 Delhi riots documenting the lynching of a Muslim man by a Hindu mob, was featured by Reuters as one of the defining photographs of the year. BBC News, National Public Radio, and the caravan noted it to be the defining image of the riot!!!     

    Another photograph taken of the police, while activists brandishing, looked on Pistol bearing teenage right wing guy at protest became the emboldening of Hindu nationalist evidence in the wake of the citizenship Amendment Act 2019.  

   Siddiqui was a Muslim, He was married to Rike, a German citizen. They have two children. He was brilliant and dashing photojournalist. In the last one year, Siddiqui extensively covered the pandemic in the country. He was an extraordinary passionate, energetic and courageous. Siddiqui started his career as a television news Correspondent, later he switched to photojournalism and joined Reutors as intern in first 2010. In 2018, he came along with Adnan Abidi to win Pulitzer Prize for Feature photography for documenting Rohingya Refugee crisis. 

    He was seized in the hands of Taliban terrorists while covering clash between Afghan special forces and Taliban and he was brutally tortured, mutilated in to the death after confirming his identity. 

    When reading the words of his father Akhtar Siddique in memory of his son, we would mourn in the loss of a beloved son, the father of two children and the copyist of the lives of ordinary. "He was very calm and quiet, and a loving son. He loved children a lot; a very emotional person," Said his father Akhtar Siddiqui in a voice full of grief. In the fullness of youth such young people who lead a colourful bright life by enjoying the passion and who lost while sacrificing their lives for the society are absolutely archetypal. Killing is a huge loss that cannot be made up.

              Siddique, who conveyed a lot of realities, will certainly live through those film reels. May artists who speak for the truth still be born....