Finalist: Agence France-Presse, by Bülent Kiliç
For his compelling photographs of Kurds fleeing ISIS attacks in small Kurdish towns on the Syrian-Turkish border.
Nominated Work
Biography
Born in 1980, Bülent Kılıç is a photojournalist based in İstanbul.
Winners
Prize Winner in Feature Photography in 2015:
Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer
For his gripping, courageous photographs of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
Feature Photography
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Feature Photography in 2015:
Bob Owen, Jerry Lara and Lisa Krantz
For chilling photographs that document the hard road Central American migrants must follow to seek refuge in the United States.
The Jury
The Jury
Geoff Forester(Chair )
photo editor
Barbara Davidson*
photographer
Kevin Martin
photo editor
Stacy Pearsall
freelance photojournalist
Maggie Steber
educator; photographer and writer
Winners in Feature Photography
Josh Haner
For his moving essay on a Boston Marathon bomb blast victim who lost most of both legs and now is painfully rebuilding his life.
Javier Manzano
For his extraordinary picture, distributed by Agence France-Presse, of two Syrian rebel soldiers tensely guarding their position as beams of light stream through bullet holes in a nearby metal wall.
Craig F. Walker
For his compassionate chronicle of an honorably discharged veteran, home from Iraq and struggling with a severe case of post-traumatic stress, images that enable viewers to better grasp a national issue.
Barbara Davidson
For her intimate story of innocent victims trapped in the city's crossfire of deadly gang violence.
2015 Prize Winners
Anthony Doerr
An imaginative and intricate novel inspired by the horrors of World War II and written in short, elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology.
Julia Wolfe
A powerful oratorio for chorus and sextet evoking Pennsylvania coal-mining life around the turn of the 20th Century.
Stephen Adly Guirgis
A nuanced, beautifully written play about a retired police officer faced with eviction that uses dark comedy to confront questions of life and death.
David I. Kertzer
An engrossing dual biography that uses recently opened Vatican archives to shed light on two men who exercised nearly absolute power over their realms.














