Finalist: The New York Times, by Tyler Hicks, Sergey Ponomarev and Wissam Nassar
Nominated Work
July 16, 2014. The body of a boy lies on a Gaza beach as a rescuer carries away another boy. Four boys died after two explosions, about 30 seconds apart. The first struck a small shack on a sea wall. The second, witnessed by the photographer, Tyler Hicks, from a nearby window, happened on the open beach near the boys as they were fleeing. Hicks rushed to the beach and photographed the scene. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
July 18, 2014. An Israeli bomb exploded in Gaza City. A small blast had warned residents to move away from the area, followed by the large one, which severely damaged its target. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
July 23, 2014. Brothers grieve for their father, killed in shelling in Khan Yunis, Gaza. (Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times)
July 20, 2014. A brief cease-fire in the expansion of Israeli military operations allowed ambulance workers to enter the devastated Shajaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, and the last remaining people who remained to flee. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
July 23, 2014. Palestinian refugees fleeing fighting in their neighborhood arrive at a United Nations school used as a shelter in Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza. (Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times)
July 24, 2014. Relatives of patients crowd at the windows of an operating room in the hospital in Beit Lahiya, Gaza. Hospitals were often so busy that blood was not wiped from gurneys between patients. (Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times)
Aug. 4, 2014. Palestinians mourn members of the Nigim family who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Jabaliya, Gaza. (Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times)
Aug. 28, 2014. Even after the fighting stopped, reconstruction was slow to nonexistent. At sundown, Gaza residents lit a fire in their destroyed neighborhood, Sha'af. (Wissam Nassar for The New York Times)
July 19, 2014. Displaced Palestinians take refuge at a school run by the United Nations in Rafah, Gaza. (Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times)
July 20, 2014. Palestinian emergency workers rescue a woman after an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah. The explosion took place next door to an apartment where photojournalists were staying. The photographer, Sergey Ponomarev, rushed to help victims, and, once rescuers arrived, photographed their work. (Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times)
July 17, 2014. Relatives grieve over the bodies of children killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
July 18, 2014. The aftermath of an Israeli bomb that exploded in Gaza City. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
July 17, 2014. A woman as her family sifts through wreckage in a Gaza apartment building struck by Israeli explosives the night before. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
July 21, 2014. Palestinians mourn over the bodies of a family killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza. (Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times)
July 22, 2014. Barred from the proceedings, women peer from a stairwell for a glimpse of the funeral of a 27-year-old Islamic Brigades fighter in an extended family home in Deir al-Balah. (Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times)
Aug. 15, 2014. Palestinian men pray beneath a toppled minaret at a mosque in Gaza. (Wissam Nassar for The New York Times)
"Aug. 21, 2014. A relative mourns Raed al-Atar, one of three senior Hamas commanders killed in an Israeli military strike, during his funeral in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. (Wissam Nassar for The New York Times)
Biography
Tyler Hicks is a senior photographer for The New York Times.
Sergey Ponomarev is a freelance photographer. Before becoming a freelancer in 2012, Mr. Ponomarev worked for the Associated Press starting in 2003.
Wissam Nassar is an award-winning Palestinian photographer. Mr. Nassar’s work has been published in international newspapers includingThe New York Timesand in Time Magazine.