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Finalist: Los Angeles Times , by Damon Winter

For his sensitive portrayal of two remote Eskimo villages coping with memories of sexual abuse by a missionary 30 years ago.

Winners

Prize Winner in Feature Photography in 2006:

Todd Heisler

For his haunting, behind-the-scenes look at funerals for Colorado Marines who return from Iraq in caskets. Feature Photography

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Feature Photography in 2006:

Mike Stocker

For his imaginative exploration of Holocaust survivors as Judaism faces a new century.

The Jury

Larry Nylund(chair )

deputy managing editor/ presentation

Hai Do

director of photography

Kenneth Irby

visual journalism group leader and diversity program director

Monica Moses

deputy managing editor, visuals

David Ng

assistant managing editor, productions

Winners in Feature Photography

Deanne Fitzmaurice

For her sensitive photo essay on an Oakland hospital's effort to mend an Iraqi boy nearly killed by an explosion.

Carolyn Cole

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.

Don Bartletti

For his memorable portrayal of how undocumented Central American youths, often facing deadly danger, travel north to the United States.

Staff

For its photographs chronicling the pain and the perseverance of people enduring protracted conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

2006 Prize Winners

The Times-Picayune

For its heroic, multi-faceted coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, making exceptional use of the newspaper's resources to serve an inundated city even after evacuation of the newspaper plant. (Selected by the Board from the Public Service category, where it was entered.)

Sun Herald

For its valorous and comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, providing a lifeline for devastated readers, in print and online, during their time of greatest need.