Walkley Awards 2016: Andrew Quilty wins Gold for Afghanistan hospital photo

By Georgina Mitchell
Updated December 3 2016 - 10:38am, first published 10:34am
One of the photographs in the Walkley-winning series Refugee Crisis in the Balkans. Photo: David Maurice Smith/Oculi
One of the photographs in the Walkley-winning series Refugee Crisis in the Balkans. Photo: David Maurice Smith/Oculi

Former Fairfax Media photographer Andrew Quilty has been awarded the Gold Walkley award for excellence in Australian journalism, for a striking photograph taken in the aftermath of a US airstrike in Afghanistan.