Evan Vucci, Pulitzer-Profitable AP Photographer, to Go away His DC Submit

Evan Vucci, chief photographer for the Associated Press in Washington, D.C., is about to go away the information company after 23 years working there.

Since 2003, Vucci has been working as a information photographer for the AP. In 2008, he hung out embedded with American troopers in Mosul, Iraq, who have been stationed at a lethal outpost. While in Iraq, Vucci captured a well known picture of journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi throwing a shoe at then U.S. President George W. Bush.

Vucci was a part of the AP staff that gained the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his or her work documenting the aftermath of the George Floyd homicide. In 2024, Vucci was broadly praised for his {photograph} of Donald Trump moments after an assassination try in Butler, Pennsylvania. The picture of Trump’s raised fist with blood splatter on his face and the American flag within the background brought about a sensation. It was placed on the entrance cowl of Time journal and Trump even had a portray commissioned of it.

Vucci’s departure from AP was reported within the AP Connecting e-newsletter, edited by Paul Stevens. “He is one of those people who needs only one name: Vucci. Whether you are in a journalists’ scrum, on a seat on Air Force One, at a protest, or a pool van, when anyone says Vucci, everyone knows exactly who you are talking about,” a notice circulated to AP Washington bureau employees reads, per Connecting.

“Evan is a full tool kit journalist. Intrepid. Fearless. Careful. Kind. Compassionate. Driven. He uses all of his senses — his eyes, his ears, his reflexes — to deliver impactful images that soon rocket around the globe because of their visual impact.”

Since Trump resumed workplace final 12 months, the AP has discovered itself within the president’s crosshairs. After the group was banned from the White House for refusing to alter its home type from Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, Vucci testified on the company’s behalf calling Associated Press photographers “the gold standard”.

The Trump administration relented and AP photographers have since been allowed again within the White House Press Corps however reporters haven’t been prolonged the identical welcome. It has meant AP photographers have needed to bear witness and report again one of the best they will. In one exceptional episode, Vucci captured the contents of a notice handed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Trump throughout a roundtable occasion on the White House informing the president {that a} peace deal within the Middle East was “very close”.

“To say that he [Vucci] will be missed in our bureau and at AP understates the void that he leaves,” the employees notice provides.