Finalist: The Washington Post , by Carol Guzy
For her powerfully intimate coverage of the perils and sorrow of childbirth in Sierra Leone, where women face the world's highest rate of maternal mortality.
Winners
Prize Winner in Feature Photography in 2009:
Damon Winter
For his memorable array of pictures deftly capturing multiple facets of Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
Feature Photography
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Feature Photography in 2009:
Sonya Hebert
For her empathetic portrait of palliative care in a Texas medical center as terminally ill patients cope with the end of their lives.
The Jury
The Jury
Dan Habib(chair )
former photo editor, Concord Monitor , and filmmaker-in-residence, University of New Hampshire
Naomi Halperin
photo editor
Karen Magnuson
editor and vice president/news
Michelle McNally
assistant managing editor, photography
Zach Ryall
internet managing editor
Winners in Feature Photography
Preston Gannaway
For her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent's terminal illness.
Renée C. Byer
For her intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle with cancer.
Todd Heisler
For his haunting, behind-the-scenes look at funerals for Colorado Marines who return from Iraq in caskets.
Deanne Fitzmaurice
For her sensitive photo essay on an Oakland hospital's effort to mend an Iraqi boy nearly killed by an explosion.
2009 Prize Winners
Patrick Farrell
For his provocative, impeccably composed images of despair after Hurricane Ike and other lethal storms caused a humanitarian disaster in Haiti.
W.S. Merwin
A collection of luminous, often tender poems that focus on the profound power of memory.
Las Vegas Sun, and notably the courageous reporting by Alexandra Berzon
For the exposure of the high death rate among construction workers on the Las Vegas Strip amid lax enforcement of regulations, leading to changes in policy and improved safety conditions.
Staff
For its swift and sweeping coverage of a sex scandal that resulted in the resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, breaking the story on its Web site and then developing it with authoritative, rapid-fire reports.