Viorel Florescu, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a Newsday alum
Some of the many images from Viorel Florescu, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a Newsday alum, who died on April 30.
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Frank Singleton in a photograph taken April 2004. Newsday reporter Steve Wick found his family in McClellanville, S.C. and helped Frank, a farm worker on Long Island, reunite after 34 years.
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Alexandra, 5, Carolina Sandoval, 4, and Naomi Siguencia, 8, three sisters that spent more than a year at a Queens hospital after being burned in a pre-Christmas fire in 2005 that killed both parents.
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In 1994 Newsday photojournalist Viorel Florescu captured this image of an attempted execution in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was in a state of chaos and instability at the hands of a military junta.
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Destroyed houses. in the Lower Ninth Ward area of New Orleans, Sept. 16 2005.
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Dr. Samuel Weinstein, chief of pediatric heart surgery, performing open heart surgery on 8-year-old Zahra'a Ali Jasem Hussein at Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, Feb. 1, 2006.
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An injured man is assisted by emergency workers after an explosion at the World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 1993.
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Office workers evacute through the lobby of one of the towers of the World Trade Center after the bombing on Feb. 26, 1993.
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Rescuers searching for survivors at Ground Zero on Sept. 13, 2001.
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A rescue worker looks around the rubble at Ground Zero on Friday, Oct. 5, 2001.
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Millagros Guzman weeps at the grave of her daughter, Jessica, at St. Raymond's Cemetery in the Bronx on Aug. 8, 1990. Jessica Guzman was murdered by Alejandro Henriquez, who was later convicted in her death and the death of two others.
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Former presidend Bill Clinton and the Rev. Billy Graham at the crusade in Flushing Meadows Park, June 25 2005.
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Members of the Palestinian faction FPLP at a rally in Gaza on Aug. 17, 2005.
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Actress Cicely Tyson greets a relative in a crowd gathered for the opening of newly-renovated East Harlem houses in Manhattan on June 8, 1994. Tyson had lived in one of the buildings as a child.
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Honor Guard carry the coffin of brigadier general David Baker at Arlington National Cemetery on May 13,2009. David Baker grew up in Huntington, graduated from Hofstra University and died in Maryland at age 62.
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The Rev. Al Sharpton talks to former mayor Edward I. Koch at St. Patrick's Catedral after the funeral for Cardinal John Q'Connor.
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Joe Pesci returned to the Bronx as the Grand Marshal of the Columbus Day Parade. He is returning a $10 bill after autographing it on Oct. 10, 1992.
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Mayor Rudolph Giuliani being sworn in by City Clerk Carlos Cuevas.
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Supporters in Tmes Square celebrate Sen. Barak Obama's historic Nov. 4, 2008 victory in the presidential election.
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A mass demonstration at the headquarters of the new government in Bucharest in December 1989. Viorel Florescu, a staff photographer for Newsday, was born in Sighisoara, Romania, and grew up under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu.
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Self-portrait of Viorel Florescu from Oct. 8, 2016.
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