Du Cille Named Chief of Post’s Photography Department
Michel du Cille, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and longtime editor and photographer at The Washington Post, has been named assistant managing editor for photography, it was announced yesterday.Du Cille, 51, a native of Kingston, Jamaica, and a professional news photographer from the age of 17, joined The Post in 1988 as picture editor and deputy assistant managing editor under Joe Elbert. Du Cille and Elbert, whom he succeeds, built a department whose members have won two Pulitzers and several national photographer of the year awards. Read more in the Washington Post, Wednesday, September 26, 2007; Page A12 on online at washingtonpost.com
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