This photo just won the Breaking News Photography Pulitzer, and it was taken on the photographers last day at work for local news. Now he's working for a beer company

Ryan Kelly captured the award-winning image in Charlottesville, Va. on Aug. 12, 2017, when an Ohio man drove a car into a crowd of counter-protestors at a white nationalist rally, striking several people and leaving 32-year-old Heather Heyer dead.

He wrote in TIME last year, “It was pure reflex. Years of photojournalism experience had prepared me to react instinctively, and it was more muscle memory than intentional composition that led to those photos.”

Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy said during Monday’s announcement that Kelly captured a “chilling image that reflected the photographer’s reflexes and concentration.”

Kelly texted The Associated Press that he was “shocked and amazed.” He described the prize as an “incredible honor” and said he was proud of the work “we all did at The Daily Progress.”

But he said, “mostly I’m still heartbroken for Heather Heyer’s family and everybody else who was affected by that tragic violence.”

https://wtop.com/virginia/2018/04/image-of-tragic-moment-in-charlottesville-leads-to-pulitzer/
http://time.com/5242423/ryan-kelly-photograph-pulitzer-prize-charlottesville/