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 (Texas, USA, 1955) left the USA in 1980 for Japan, where he worked as a photojournalist for such magazines as Newsweek, Time, The New York Time...

Technical information

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

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