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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

A Syrian Kurd carries an elderly woman after crossing the border between Syria and Turkey near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, on September 20, 2014. Several thousand Syrian Kurds began crossing into Turkey on September 19 fleeing Islamic State fighters who advanced into their villages, prompting warnings of massacres from Kurdish leaders. (Bülent Kılıç/AFP)

Syrian Kurdish children receive food after crossing the border near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, on September 21, 2014. (Bülent Kılıç/AFP)

Syrian Kurds get into a truck after crossing the border between Syria and Turkey in Suruc, in the Sanliurfa province, on September 30, 2014. Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds flooded into Turkey fleeing an attack by the Islamic State (IS) group. (Bülent Kılıç/AFP)

A Kurdish woman runs away from a water cannon during clashes with Turkish soldiers near the Syrian border after Turkish authorities temporarily closed the border, preventing Syrian Kurds who had accompanied their families to safety inside Turkey, from returning to the battlefront, on September 22, 2014. (Bülent Kılıç/AFP)

Kurdish protesters clash with Turkish soldiers near the Syrian border after Turkish authorities temporarily closed the border, preventing Syrian Kurds who accompanied their families to safety inside Turkey, from returning to the battlefront on September 22, 2014 at the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province. (Bülent Kılıç/AFP)

A Turkish soldier kisses Syrian Kurds children in Sanliurfa province, on September 20, 2014, after they crossed the border between Syria and Turkey near the southeastern town of Suruc. Several thousand Syrian Kurds began crossing into Turkey on September 19 fleeing Islamic State fighters who advanced into their villages. (Bülent Kılıç/AFP)

Turkish military forces of the Jandarma (Police Force) block access to the Mursitpinar crossing gate near the Syrian border, as Syrian Kurdish people try to pass, in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, on September 28, 2014. (Bülent Kılıç/AFP)

Kurdish protesters throw stones at Turkish soldiers during clashes near the Syrian border after Turkish authorities temporarily closed the border at the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, on September 21, 2014. (Bülent Kılıç/AFP)

Syrian Kurds go back to Syria at the Mursitpinar crossing gate in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, on September 24, 2014. The numbers of Kurdish refugees fleeing into Turkey to escape the advance of Islamic State jihadists in northern Syria has slowed considerably over the last few days, Turkish officials said on Wednesday. (Bülent Kılıç/AFP)

Syrian Kurds wait near Syria border at the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, on September 20, 2014. (Bülent Kılıç/AFP)

A Kurdish man jumps over the border fence into Syria during a demonstration near the Mursitpinar border crossing at Suruc, Turkey, on September 26, 2014. (Bülent Kılıç/AFP)

Members of the Syrian Kurdish Altay family try to spot on October 20, 2014 from the Turkish Syrian border village of Mursitpinar, their relative, Zamani Suruc, who is fighting Islamic State (IS) jihadists in the Syrian border town of Kobane. (Bülent Kılıç/AFP)

An elderly Syrian Kurd sleeps in her wheelchair after she crossed the border between Syria and Turkey near the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, on September 20, 2014. Several thousand Syrian Kurds began crossing into Turkey on September 19 fleeing Islamic State fighters who advanced into their villages. (Bülent Kılıç/AFP)

A Kurdish man carries his son during a rainy day at the Rojova Camp in Suruc, Turkey, on October 30, 2014. Rojova houses refugees from Syria fleeing ISIS attacks. (Bülent Kılıç/AFP)

A Syrian Kurdish girl eats bread while she and her mother rest in Suruc in the Sanliurfa province, after crossing the border between Syria and Turkey, following several mortars attacks which hit both sides on October 2, 2014. (Bülent Kılıç/AFP)

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

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.