The New York Times, by Damon Winter
Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University (left), presents the 2009 Feature Photography prize to Damon Winter of The New York Times.
Winning Work
Senator Obama drenched, during a rally at Widener University in Chester, Pa.
Rapt but chilly Obama supporters at a campaign rally at the Widener University in Chester, Pa.
A crowd of children waited behind a fence on the track at Duncanville High School in Duncanville, Tex. as Senator Obama arrived to speak.
Senator Obama addressing a rally in Rodney Square in downtown Wilmington, Del.
Supporters cried and cheered on election night in Grant Park in Chicago as it became certain that Barack Obama would be the next president.
The serving staff watched from the back as Senator Obama greeted customers and workers at the Deli Den in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Senator Obama speaking at the Izod Center at the Meadowlands, East Rutherford, N.J.
Senator Obama buying tickets for food and rides at the Sombrero Festival in Brownsville, Tex.
A law enforcement agent keeps watch from an upper-level entrance as Senator Obama spoke to an estimated 10,000 supporters at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.
Not all is serious or momentous at an Obama Rally in Jacksonville, Fla.
Secret service agents tugging at the hands of a supporter as she hugged Mr. Obama at Legend’s Field in Tampa, Fla.
Senator Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia join his wife, Michelle, at a campaign rally in Springfield, Mo.
Senator Obama emerging from a holding area backstage before a rally at the University of Cincinnati.
Mr. Obama waited backstage before a rally at the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Va.
Children inscribe a favorite at an Obama rally at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, Fla.
A mid-October campaign stop at Mack’s Apples, Londonderry, N.H.
Senator Obama at a campaign rally in Pueblo, Colo., the Saturday before the election.
A show of hands at a rally at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, Fla: Who makes under $250,000 a year?, Senator Obama asked.
Early on: Senator Obama after a meeting with veterans in San Antonio in March.
Shadrick Johnson, 6, wandered off the line outside the Columbia Convention Center in South Carolina, where Senator Obama would soon be speaking.
Biography
Damon Winter joined the staff of The New York Times in May 2007 after working for the previous three years as a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times. He has also worked for The Dallas Morning News, Newsweek, Magnum Photos, The Ventura County Star and The Indianapolis Star. Mr. Winter has covered a broad range of stories including conflicts in Israel and Afghanistan, 9/11 in New York, the Olympic Games and feature stories in Vietnam, Cuba, Russia and India.
Born in Elmira, NY, on Dec. 24, 1974, Mr. Winter grew up in St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands. He has a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from Columbia University.
Mr. Winter has won awards from World Press Photo, Picturàs of the Year, Society of News Design, NPPA Best of Photojournalism, APME, and was named the NPPA Region 8 Photographer of the Year in 2002 and the California Press Photographer of the year in 2006. He has been featured in the Communication Arts Photography Annuals 2001-2005 and was the subject of a feature profile in May/June 2005. His photo essay on sexual abuse victims in western Alaska was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and was part of a portfolio that earned the National Journalism Award for Photojournalism that year.
Mr. Winter now lives in Brooklyn, NY.