Politzer Award winner for a Trump shot shot

The veteran photographer in New York Times Doug Mills said it was a mixture of “longevity” and “luck” that led him to capture an assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in a series of Politzer’s photos.

“This is the most dangerous positions that I was at all,” said Mills, who has portrayed every president since 1983.

the The winning pictures sequence It includes the moment Coded by Trump’s head. Mills also seized this, as Trump pumped a grip and facilities from the platform by the secret service, and blood destroyed his face.

Mills remembers that he is six to eight feet when the shots are emptied, and his news instincts are jumping. He did not know what the sounds were at the beginning, but he was already on his finger on his night, as he was trying to take a picture of Trump, who was hinting in the scheme.

He said, “I did not remove my finger from the shutter. I did not deal with that,” adding that his experience as a sports photographer may appear. “I didn’t stop looking at where the shots come from, but I kept my finger on the button.”

“My weird to shoot sports has already came because it is very fast and you are waiting for that peak.”

In the aftermath of the shooting, there was wrong information to float about what happened. He remembers a call with the New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman, which helps her to prefer allegations that glass fragments from a remote device have hit Trump’s ear.

Mills said he was “surprised” after he sent his photos to the office, when the editor Jennifer Mosprosker contacted that one of the photos had taken the feature of bullets.

“I couldn’t believe it,” he said.

“You will win prizes with that picture.”

Mills said that Trump – who was long ago Courtesy – “Wonder” in the picture on several occasions, including days after the assassination attempt behind the scenes at the Republican National Congress.

Mills said he remembers that Trump tells him: “You will win prizes with that picture.”

Trump praised others’s work on that day as well.

“Many people say it’s the most famous picture that they have ever seen,” Trump said previously about a different image by the Associated Press Evan Fuction. “They are right, and I did not die. Usually, you have to die in order to get a creative image.”

Mills said that although the work carried out by his colleagues on that day was “great as much”, he believed that he received Politzer because no one had seized evidence of the shooting during its occurrence.

“This is what I think brought to a new level of the press,” he said.

“Biden’s photography was more challenging”

your A big photographer For times from Since Ronald Reagan has been covered since Ronald Reagan, Mills had previously won Plotrez for covering the Clinton/Gore campaign and Monica Lewinsky’s area.

He also seized the moment when former President George W. Bush was informed of the September 11 attacks in a semester of the Florida Elementary School.

In addition to Pulitzers, Mills was honored for his work that covers former President Joe Biden, including with a White House Representative Association Award.

But Mills said that the difference between Biden and Trump was like “night and day.” Mills said that as a professional politician, Biden was less released during photo capture and less interesting. It made it less dynamic and mystical than Trump.

He said: “Biden’s filming was more challenging, but he kept your toes.”