Canon Ambassador Daniel Etter took this image of Sorim Ciobanu (front) and another miner as they rested in a mine shaft in Lonea Coal Mine, Petrila, Romania on 19 July 2018. "The coal industry in the Jiu Valley in Romania has seen steady decline since the 1990s," says Daniel. "During its peak, there were 54,000 people working in and around the mines. Nowadays, it is down to some 3,000." Taken on a Canon EOS R with a Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens at 1/80 sec, f/1.6, and ISO3200. © Daniel Etter
Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Etter is a multi-talented photojournalist whose hard-hitting images consistently appear in the world's most prestigious news publications.
Photography, journalism and filmmaking; the Canon Ambassador has many strings to his creative bow. His gritty but often heart-rending reportage images have appeared across a selection of the world's top-flight publications, including The New York Times, Newsweek, Stern, Der Spiegel and Time.
"In 2001, I saw the documentary War Photographer about James Nachtwey," Daniel says. "It portrayed a romantic idea of the lonesome photographer who goes out into the world and tries to trigger positive change through photography. An almost impossible task. Being 20 years old, I was deeply inspired by it and knew that I wanted to pursue the same career path."