For a distinguished example of feature photography, which may be a single photograph or series of photographs of general news that may be taken over time and that illuminate a subject in great depth, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).

Photography Staff of Associated Press

For poignant photographs chronicling unprecedented masses of migrants and their arduous journey north from Colombia to the border of the United States.

Associated Press staff members (from left: Gregory Bull, Ivan Valencia, Felix Marquez, Eduardo Verdugo, Christian Torres Chavez, Fernando Llano and Eric Gay) accept the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography from Columbia University Interim President Katrina Armstrong (far left). (David Dini/The Pulitzer Prizes)

Winning Work

Migrants sit under a sign marking the Panama-Colombia border during their trek across the Darién Gap, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Migrants planning to start walking across the Darién Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S. gather at the trailhead camp in Acandi, Colombia, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Haitian migrants wade through water as they cross the Darién Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S., Tuesday, May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Migrants walk across the Darién Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S., Tuesday, May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

A Venezuelan migrant laughs as she jokes with her husband, who gave her a few flowers he picked in the grass, as they wait along the rail lines in hopes of boarding a freight train heading north in Huehuetoca, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Migrants, mainly from Central America, who were traveling to the U.S. inside a tractor-trailer, are detained by Mexican immigration agents and National Guard members, in Veracruz, Mexico, Sunday, July 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Migrants travel inside train cars of a northbound freight train, in Irapuato, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A Venezuelan migrant stands covered in a wrap while texting, on the banks of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Saturday, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Migrants who crossed into the U.S. from Mexico pass under concertina wire along the Rio Grande river, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum Friday, May 12, 2023, in San Diego. Hundreds of migrants remain waiting between the two walls, many for days. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Migrants cross the Rio Bravo on an inflatable mattress into the United States from Matamoros, Mexico, on May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

A group of migrants sleep in a makeshift campsite as they wait to apply for asylum after crossing the border, Wednesday, May 10, 2023, near Jacumba, Calif. The group had been camping just across the border for days, waiting to apply for asylum in the United States. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Migrants cross the Rio Grande river into the United States from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

A woman carries her child after she and other migrants crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Venezuelan migrants wave a U.S. flag at a television helicopter that flew over the Rio Grande, in Matamoros, Mexico, Friday, May 12, 2023, a day after pandemic-related asylum restrictions called Title 42 were lifted. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Feature Photography in 2024:

Hannah Reyes Morales, contributor, The New York Times

For a creative series of photographs documenting a “youthquake” occurring in Africa where, by 2050, the continent will account for one-quarter of the world’s population and one-third of its young people.

Nanna Heitmann, contributor, The New York Times

For illuminating photographs portraying a generation living under President Vladimir Putin’s resurgent nationalism while Russia is at war in Ukraine.

The Jury

Sandy Hooper(Chair)

Deputy Managing Editor, Visuals, USA Today

Don Bartletti*

Freelance Photojournalist, Los Angeles

Kyndell Harkness

Assistant Managing Editor of Diversity/Community, Star Tribune, Minneapolis

Danese Kenon

Managing Editor, Visuals, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Emilio Morenatti*

Chief Photographer, Associated Press

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.

2022

Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and the late Danish Siddiqui of Reuters

For images of COVID’s toll in India that balanced intimacy and devastation, while offering viewers a heightened sense of place. (Moved from Breaking News Photography by the jury.)

2021

Emilio Morenatti of Associated Press

For a poignant series of photographs that takes viewers into the lives of the elderly in Spain struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020

Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan and Dar Yasin of Associated Press

For striking images captured during a communications blackout in Kashmir depicting life in the contested territory as India stripped it of its semi-autonomy.

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2024 Prize Winners

Explanatory Reporting

Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker

For a searing indictment of our legal system’s reliance on the felony murder charge and its disparate consequences, often devastating for communities of color.

National Reporting

Staff of Reuters

For an eye-opening series of accountability stories focused on Elon Musk’s automobile and aerospace businesses, stories that displayed remarkable breadth and depth and provoked official probes of his companies’ practices in Europe and the United States.

Investigative Reporting

Hannah Dreier of The New York Times

For a deeply reported series of stories revealing the stunning reach of migrant child labor across the United States—and the corporate and governmental failures that perpetuate it.

Commentary

Vladimir Kara-Murza, contributor, The Washington Post

For passionate columns written under great personal risk from his prison cell, warning of the consequences of dissent in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and insisting on a democratic future for his country.

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