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Finalist: St. Louis Post-Dispatch , by Robert Cohen

For his sensitive portrayal of homeless suburban families camping in motels during the recession, often recording memorable emotional moments.

Winners

Prize Winner in Feature Photography in 2010:

Craig F. Walker

For his intimate portrait of a teenager who joins the Army at the height of insurgent violence in Iraq, poignantly searching for meaning and manhood. Feature Photography

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Feature Photography in 2010:

Mary F. Calvert

For her courageous work published in The Washington Times that vividly documents how rapes, by the tens of thousands, have become a weapon of war in Congo.

The Jury

Nancy Andrews

managing editor/digital media

Nanya Friend

editor and publisher

Richard Murphy

photo director

Sherman Williams(chair )

assistant managing editor/visual journalism

Steve Gonzales

director of photography

Winners in Feature Photography

Damon Winter

For his memorable array of pictures deftly capturing multiple facets of Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

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.

2010 Prize Winners

Paul Harding

A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality.

Hank Williams

For his craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity and played a pivotal role in transforming country music into a major musical and cultural force in American life.

Liaquat Ahamed

A compelling account of how four powerful bankers played crucial roles in triggering the Great Depression and ultimately transforming the United States into the world's financial leader.

Rae Armantrout

A book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading.