Jeff Widener

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The Unknown Rebel - This famous photo depicts a lone protester, whose actions halted the progress of a column of advancing tanks until he was pulled into the crowd. Jeff Widener (The Associated Press)
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The Unknown Rebel - This famous photo depicts a lone protester, whose actions halted the progress of a column of advancing tanks until he was pulled into the crowd.
Jeff Widener (The Associated Press)

Jeff Widener (born c. 1956) is the Associated Press photojournalist who took the world-famous picture of "The Unknown Rebel" in 1989 during the Tiananmen Square Protests. The photo depicts a lone protester who halted a column of advancing tanks for more than half an hour.

Widener took the photo from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel, about half a mile away, through a 400mm lens. He was subsequently nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for "Spot News Photography".

As of 2006, he is a staff photographer for the Honolulu Advertiser.

Widener has won numerous awards from the local Society of Professional Journalists and won second place for a pictorial in the 2004 National Press Photographers Association awards. [1]

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