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Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography has been awarded since 1968 for a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album.
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| 2009 | Damon Winter |
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Damon Winter is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For his memorable array of pictures deftly capturing multiple facets of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. | ||
| 2008 | Preston Gannaway |
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Preston Gannaway is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent's terminal illness. | ||
| 2007 | Renée C. Byer |
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Renée C. Byer is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For her intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle with cancer. | ||
| 2006 | Todd Heisler |
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Todd Heisler (born 1972) is an American photojournalist. He is currently a staff photographer for the New York Times.
While at the Rocky Mountain News, Heisler was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for "Final Salute," a series...
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For his haunting, behind-the-scenes look at funerals For Colorado Marines who return from Iraq in caskets. | ||
| 2005 | Deanne Fitzmaurice |
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Deanne Fitzmaurice is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For her sensitive photo essay on an Oakland hospital's effort to mend an Iraqi boy nearly killed by an explosion. | ||
| 2004 | Carolyn Cole |
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Carolyn Cole (born April 24, 1961) is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2004, for her coverage of the siege of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.
Cole graduated from The University...
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For her cohesive, behind-the-scenes look at the effects of civil war in Liberia, with special attention to innocent citizens caught in the conflict. | ||
| 2003 | Don Bartletti |
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Don Bartletti is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For his memorable portrayal of how undocumented Central American youths, often facing deadly danger, travel north to the United States. | ||
| 2002 | The New York Times |
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded in 1851 and published in New York City. The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, "The Gray Lady"—named for its staid appearance and style—is regarded as a national newspaper...
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For its photographs chronicling the pain and the perseverance of people enduring protracted conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan. | ||
| 2001 | Matt Rainey |
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Matt Rainey is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For his emotional photographs that illustrate the care and recovery of two students critically burned in a dormitory fire at Seton Hall University. | ||
| 2000 | Carol Guzy |
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Carol Guzy is a Pulitzer-prize winning photo journalist.
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For their intimate and poignant images depicting the plight of the Kosovo refugees. | ||
| Michael Williamson |
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Michael Williamson b. 1957, is an American photojournalist whose work has been awarded two Pulitzer Prizes. With writer Dale Maharidge, he is co-author of the book And Their Children After Them, which received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non...
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| Lucian Perkins |
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Lucian Perkins is an award-winning American photojournalist, who is best known for covering a number of controversial conflicts with profound compassion for his photograph's subjects, including the war in Afganistan, Kosovo and the 1991 Persian Gulf...
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| 1999 | Associated Press |
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The Associated Press (AP) is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff...
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For its striking collection of photographs of the key players and events stemming from President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky and the ensuing impeachment hearings. | ||
| 1998 | Clarence Williams |
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Clarence Williams is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For his powerful images documenting the plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs. | ||
| 1997 | Alexander Zemlianichenko |
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Alexander (Sasha) Zemlianichenko, prominent Russian photojournalist, born May 7, 1950, in Saratov, Russia.
He has been working for the Associated Press in Moscow since 1990. He has traveled extensively, covering news stories throughout the former...
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For his photograph of Russian President Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock concert during his campaign For re-election. This was originally nominated in the Spot News Photography section, but was moved by the board to Feature Photography. | ||
| 1996 | Stephanie Welsh |
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Stephanie Welsh is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For her shocking sequence of photos, published by Newhouse News Service, of a female genital cutting rite in Kenya. | ||
| 1995 | Associated Press |
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The Associated Press (AP) is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff...
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For its portfolio of photographs chronicling the horror and devastation in Rwanda. | ||
| 1994 | Kevin Carter |
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Kevin Carter (September 13, 1960 in Johannesburg – July 27, 1994) was an award-winning South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club.
Carter had started to work as weekend sports photographer in 1983. In 1984 he moved on to work for...
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For a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby. | ||
| 1993 | Associated Press |
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The Associated Press (AP) is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff...
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For its portfolio of images drawn from the 1992 presidential campaign. | ||
| 1992 | John Kaplan |
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John Kaplan is an American photographer who won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography "for his photographs depicting the diverse lifestyles of seven 21-year-olds across the United States" .
In 1999 he became a faculty member at the...
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For his photographs depicting the diverse lifestyles of seven 21-year-olds across the United States. | ||
| 1991 | William Snyder |
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William Snyder is a four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and former Director of Photography for The Dallas Morning News. Snyder won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1989 along with reporter David Hanners and artist Karen...
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For his photographs of ill and orphaned children living in subhuman conditions in Romania. | ||
| 1990 | David C. Turnley |
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David C. Turnley is an American photographer. He won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for photography for images of the political uprisings in China and Eastern Europe, the World Press Photo Picture of the Year in 1988 for a photo taken in Leninakan after...
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For photographs of the political uprisings in China and Eastern Europe. | ||
| 1989 | Manny Crisostomo |
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Manny Crisostomo is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For his series of photographs depicting student life at Southwestern High School in Detroit. | ||
| 1988 | Michel duCille |
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Michel duCille is an American photojournalist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He shared his first Pulitzer in the 1986 Spot News Photography category with fellow Miami Herald staff photographer Carol Guzy for their coverage of the November...
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For photographs portraying the decay and subsequent rehabilitation of a housing project overrun by the drug crack. | ||
| 1987 | David C. Peterson |
David C. Peterson is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For his photographs depicting the shattered dreams of American farmers. | |||
| 1986 | Tom Gralish |
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Tom Gralish is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer. Born in Mount Clemens, Michigan, he worked for United Press International and the now-defunct Las Vegas Valley Times before coming to work for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1983 as a...
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For his series of photographs of Philadelphia's homeless. | ||
| 1985 | Stan Grossfield |
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Stan Grossfeld is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, writer and editor at The Boston Globe. He was born December 20, 1951, in New York City and graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Professional Photography...
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For his series of photographs of the famine in Ethiopia and For his pictures of illegal aliens on the U.S.-Mexico border. | ||
| 1984 | Anthony Suau |
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Anthony Suau (born 1956), is an American award-winning photographer.
He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his photographs of the famine in Ethiopia, the World Press Photo of the Year in 1987 for a photo taken during a demonstration in South Korea,...
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For a series of photographs which depict the tragic effects of starvation in Ethiopia and For a single photograph of a woman at her husband's gravesite on Memorial Day. | ||
| 1983 | James B. Dickman |
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James (Jay) B Dickman born in 1949, is an American photographer, he won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography while a staff member for the Dallas Times Herald.
In the same year he also won the World Press Golden Eye for a series of photos...
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For his telling photographs of life and death in El Salvador. | ||
| 1982 | John H. White |
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John H. White (born 1945) is an American photojournalist.
When John H. White was nine years old, a teacher told him that he would grow up to work on a garbage truck because he was slow in math. At home, his father told him to grow up to his best, to...
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For consistently excellent work on a variety of subjects. | ||
| 1981 | Taro M. Yamasaki |
Taro M. Yamasaki is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For his photographs of Jackson State Prison, Michigan. | |||
| 1980 | Erwin H. Hagler |
Erwin H. Hagler is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For a series on the Western cowboy. | |||
| 1979 | Boston Herald |
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The Boston Herald is a daily newspaper that serves Boston, Massachusetts, United States and its surrounding area. It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the USA. It has been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes in its history,...
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For photographic coverage of the blizzard of 1978. | ||
| 1978 | J. Ross Baughman |
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J. Ross Baughman is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For three photographs from guerrilla areas in Rhodesia. | ||
| 1977 | Robin Hood |
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Robin Hood is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For his photograph of a disabled veteran and his child at an Armed Forces Day parade. | ||
| 1976 | The Courier-Journal |
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The Courier-Journal, nicknamed the "C-J", is the main newspaper for the city of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. According to the 1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook, the paper is the 48th largest daily paper in the United States and the single...
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For a comprehensive pictorial report on busing in Louisville's schools. | ||
| 1975 | Matthew Lewis |
Matthew Lewis is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For his photographs in color and black and white. | |||
| 1974 | Slava Veder |
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Slava Veder is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For his picture Burst of Joy, which illustrated the return of an American prisoner of war from captivity in North Vietnam. | ||
| 1973 | Brian Lanker |
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Brian Lanker is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For his sequence on child birth, as exemplified by his photograph, 'Moment of Life.' | ||
| 1972 | David Hume Kennerly |
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David Hume Kennerly (born 1947) in Roseburg, Oregon, won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his portfolio of photographs taken of the Vietnam War, Cambodia, East Pakistani refugees near Calcutta, and the Ali-Frazier fight in Madison...
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For his dramatic photographs of the Vietnam War in 1971. | ||
| 1971 | Jack Dykinga |
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Jack Dykinga is a Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist.
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For his dramatic and sensitive photographs at the Lincoln and Dixon State Schools For the Retarded in Illinois. | ||
| 1970 | Dallas Kinney |
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Dallas Kinney, born in 1937 in Buckeye, Iowa is a world renowned photo journalist who won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in photography for his photographs of Florida migrant workers. As a newspaper journalist, Dallas has worked for the Washington Evening...
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For his portfolio of pictures of Florida migrant workers, 'Migration to Misery.' | ||
| 1969 | Moneta Sleet Jr. |
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Moneta J. Sleet, Jr. (February 14, 1926 - September 30, 1996) won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s widow, Coretta Scott King, at Dr. King's funeral. Sleet is the first African American...
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For his photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow and child, taken at Dr. King's funeral. | ||
| 1968 | Toshio Sakai |
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Toshio Sakai (酒井 淑夫, Sakai Toshio, 1940–1999), a graduate of Meiji University, a photographer for United Press International, won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1968, for a photograph depicting the Vietnam War. He was the first person...
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For his Vietnam War combat photograph, 'Dreams of Better Times.' | ||
