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The 2025 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Feature Photography

Finalist: Photography Staff of Associated Press

For their brave and gripping imagery from Gaza that steps back from the front lines to chronicle daily life as it continues in a war zone.

Nominated Work

Smoke rises in the background as Israeli soldiers enter southern Israel from the Gaza Strip aboard a military vehicle, on Sunday, January 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Palestinian Tamim Marouf, 6, sits inside his family's tent alongside his sister Hala, 10, and his brother Malek, 4, at a camp for internally displaced Palestinians on the beachfront in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Anemone wildflowers bloom in Re'im, southern Israel, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, at the site of a cross-border attack by Hamas on the Nova music festival where hundreds of revelers were killed and kidnapped into the Gaza Strip. As spring approaches each year, wildflowers erupt across Israel. Nowhere is the show more dramatic than in southern Israel, near Gaza, where brilliant red anemones burst forth with such intensity that rolling hills seem to grow red carpets. The flowers are especially symbolic this year, during the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

A bullet hole is seen on the bedroom wall of hostage Doron Steinbrecher, 30, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Israel, on Monday, June 24, 2024. Steinbrecher was kidnapped on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Areej al Qadi shows the dress of her daughter Laila at her tent in a refugee camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday Nov. 21, 2024. Seven-year-old Hamza, his five-year-old brother Abdelaziz, and his four-year-old sister Laila Hassan were among 9 people killed by an Israeli strike in Khan Younis. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews wearing prayer shawls perform the Hoshana Rabbah prayer on the seventh day of the weeklong Jewish holiday of Sukkot at Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem's Old City with the Dome of the Rock shrine, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (AP Photo//Oded Balilty)

Randa Baker, who was displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, hangs Ramadan decorations and lanterns with her daughter, remarking the beginning of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at a makeshift tent camp in the Muwasi area, southern Gaza, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Palestinian children displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the northern Gaza Strip play next to the border with Egypt, in Rafah, southern Gaza, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
 

Asma Al-Kharobi, 16, feeds her 10-month-old baby sister bread mixed with water at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Reda Abu Zarada wraps herself and her grandchildren in blankets as they prepare to sleep in their tent at a camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews look at part of an intercepted ballistic missile that fell in the desert near the city of Arad, Israel, on April 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
 

A Palestinian girl struggles to reach for food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Eliya, holds an photo of her grandfather Alex Dancyg, who died according to the Israeli military after being kidnapped by the Hamas militant group, during a rally calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Palestinians walk through the destruction in the wake of an Israeli air and ground offensive in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, April 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Winners

Prize Winner in Feature Photography in 2025:

Moises Saman, contributor, The New Yorker

For his haunting black and white images of Sednaya prison in Syria that capture the traumatic legacy of Assad’s torture chambers, forcing viewers to confront the raw horrors faced by prisoners and contemplate the scars on society. (Moved by the jury from Breaking News Photography.) Feature Photography

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Feature Photography in 2025:

Lynsey Addario, contributor, The New York Times

For her sensitive and wrenching photo essay of a young Ukrainian girl with a rare eye cancer whose treatment was thwarted by the war.

The Jury

Pancho Bernasconi(Chair)

Vice President, Global News, Getty Images

Nikki Kahn*

Photo Editor, Sierra Magazine

Emilio Morenatti*

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 Feature Photography

2023

Christina House of the Los Angeles Times

For an intimate look into the life of a pregnant 22-year-old woman living on the street in a tent–images that show her emotional vulnerability as she tries and ultimately loses the struggle to raise her child.
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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.
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