Finalist: Photography Staff of Agence France-Presse

For a variety of powerful images, shot entirely by a team of Palestinian journalists, that encapsulate the enduring humanity of the people of Gaza amid widespread destruction and loss.

Nominated Work

An Israeli tank and other military vehicles guard a position as Palestinians flee Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 26, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by Mahmud Hams / AFP)

This picture shows Al-Maqoussi towers area on February 3, 2024, in the aftermath of Israeli bombardment on Gaza City, as battles continue between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

The body of a Palestinian killed in an early morning incident when residents rushed toward aid trucks in Gaza City is carried on a donkey-pulled cart on February 29, 2024. The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Israeli forces shot dead dozens of people when a crowd rushed towards aid trucks on February 29. Israeli sources confirmed that troops opened fire at Palestinians, with one saying soldiers thought they "posed a threat", and that many died when they were run over by aid trucks. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

An aerial view shows mourners watching as medical personnel prepare the bodies of 47 Palestinians, that were taken and later released by Israel, during a mass funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 7, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. Gaza's Hamas-run government media office said that Israel had returned dozens of bodies that had been exhumed from graves in the besieged territory in recent weeks. "The bodies arrived through the Kerem Shalom crossing and were received by the ministry of health," Ihsan Al-Natour from the Hamas-run ministry of endowments told AFP at the funeral. (Photo by Said Khatib / AFP)

The Palestinian Al-Naji family prepare to break their fast during the first day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan sitting amidst the ruins of their family house in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on March 11, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)

A Palestinian woman assists an injured man outside Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, following Israeli bombardment on March 13, 2024, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by Said Khatib / AFP)

A Palestinian woman reacts as she cradles a wounded boy after Israeli bombardment in central Gaza City on March 18, 2024, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

Palestinians react at a hospital where casualties of Israeli bombardment on al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip were transported on April 8, 2024, as the war between Israel and the Hamas movement continues. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Palestinians look at smoke billowing during Israeli bombardment on the Firas market area in Gaza City on April 11, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

People rush to landing humanitarian aid packages dropped over the northern Gaza Strip on April 23, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

A woman and children react following Israeli bombardment in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on April 29, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Palestinians who returned briefly to the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip to check on their homes, run for cover after a school was hit by an Israeli strike on May 30, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

Palestinians mourn over a body of a relative, killed in an Israeli strike, ahead of their funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 12, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas militant group. The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on August 15 that the death toll has crossed 40,000 in the more than 10-month war between Israel and Palestinian militants. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)

A man takes cover behind a column as an explosion propagates smoke and dust during an Israeli strike which reportedly targeted a school in the Zeitoun district on the outskirts of Gaza City, on September 1, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. (Photo by Omar Al- AL-QATTAA / AFP)

A man prepares to toss a bag of bread for another person as people crowd while queueing for bread outside a bakery in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 23, 2024 amidst a flour shortage during the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Winners

Prize Winner in Breaking News Photography in 2025:

Doug Mills of The New York Times

For a sequence of photos of the attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, including one image that captures a bullet whizzing through the air as he speaks. Breaking News Photography

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Breaking News Photography in 2025:

Nanna Heitmann, contributor, Tyler Hicks, David Guttenfelder and Nicole Tung, contributor, of The New York Times

For their persistence in photographing the war in Ukraine capturing the horror for both sides of the intractable conflict that has killed or wounded more than a million Ukrainians and Russians.

The Jury

Pancho Bernasconi(Chair)

Vice President, Global News, Getty Images

Nikki Kahn*

Photo Editor, Sierra Magazine

Emilio Morenatti*

Chief Photographer, Associated Press

Irwin Thompson

Former Assistant Director of Visual Journalism, The Dallas Morning News

Lauren Walsh

Visiting Assistant Professor and Director, Gallatin Photojournalism Intensive, New York University

Winners in Breaking News Photography

2024

Photography Staff of Reuters

For raw and urgent photographs documenting the October 7th deadly attack in Israel by Hamas and the first weeks of Israel’s devastating assault on Gaza.

2023

Photography Staff of Associated Press

For unique and urgent images from the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including the devastation of Mariupol after other news organizations left, victims of the targeting of civilian infrastructure and the resilience of the Ukrainian people who were able to flee.

2022

Marcus Yam of the Los Angeles Times

For raw and urgent images of the U.S. departure from Afghanistan that capture the human cost of the historic change in the country. (Moved from Feature Photography by the jury.)

2021

Photography Staff of Associated Press

For a collection of photographs from multiple U.S. cities that cohesively captures the country's response to the death of George Floyd.

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2025 Prize Winners

National Reporting

Staff of The Wall Street Journal

For chronicling political and personal shifts of the richest person in the world, Elon Musk, including his turn to conservative politics, his use of legal and illegal drugs and his private conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Local Reporting

Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher of The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times

For a compassionate investigative series that captured the breathtaking dimensions of Baltimore’s fentanyl crisis and its disproportionate impact on older Black men, creating a sophisticated statistical model that The Banner shared with other newsrooms.

Commentary

Mosab Abu Toha, contributor, The New Yorker

For essays on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza that combine deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience of more than a year and a half of war with Israel.

Criticism

Alexandra Lange, contributing writer, Bloomberg CityLab

For graceful and genre-expanding writing about public spaces for families, deftly using interviews, observations and analysis to consider the architectural components that allow children and communities to thrive.

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