Finalist: South Florida Sun-Sentinel , by Mike Stocker
For his imaginative exploration of Holocaust survivors as Judaism faces a new century.
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:
Damon Winter
For his sensitive portrayal of two remote Eskimo villages coping with memories of sexual abuse by a missionary 30 years ago.
The Jury
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.
Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith
For their indefatigable probe of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff that exposed congressional corruption and produced reform efforts.