1990 Photo Contest, World Press Photo of the Year
Photographer

Charlie Cole

Newsweek

05 June, 1989

A demonstrator confronts a line of People's Liberation Army tanks on Chang'an Avenue, Beijing, during protests for democratic reform on Tiananmen Square.

About the photographer

Charlie Cole

American photographer Charlie Cole (1955 - 2019) left the USA in 1980 for Japan, where he worked as a photojournalist for such magazines as Newsweek, Time, The New York Times and...

Technical information

Focal length
300 mm
F-Stop
f/4 ED
ISO
400
Camera
Nikon FM2

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