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Alan Diaz (born 1947) is an American photographer who won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his photograph of the United States Border Patrol’s BORTAC team’s seizure of Elian Gonzalez.Diaz was born and raised in New York and moved to Cuba with his family in 1964. In Cuba Diaz became a teacher and studied photography with Cuban photographer Korda (Alberto Diaz Gutierrez). He moved to Miami in 1978 and became a photographer and English teacher.