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The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography has been awarded since 1968 for a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album. The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
Before 1968, there was only one photography category, the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which was divided into spot news and breaking news and the feature categories. Given since 1942, the Pulitzer Prize for Photography was divided in 1968 into the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography was awarded from 1968 – 1999, thereafter being renamed and split into the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography and the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. ... Students gather following the Columbine High School massacre, part of the photography for which the Rocky Mountain News won the 2000 Breaking News Photography Pulitzer. ...
1984:Anthony Suau, The Denver Post, for a series of photographs which depict the tragic effects of starvation in Ethiopia and for a single photograph of a woman at her husband's gravesite on Memorial Day.
1985: Stan Grossfeld, Boston Globe, for his series of photographs of the famine in Ethiopia and for his pictures of illegal aliens on the U.S.-Mexico border.
1992:John Kaplan, Block Newspapers, Toledo, Ohio, for his photographs depicting the diverse lifestyles of seven 21-year-olds across the United States.
1993: Staff of Associated Press, for its portfolio of images drawn from the 1992 presidential campaign.
1994:Kevin Carter, a free-lance photographer, for a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby.
1995: Staff of Associated Press, for its portfolio of photographs chronicling the horror and devastation in Rwanda.
1996: Stephanie Welsh, a free-lancer, for her shocking sequence of photos, published by Newhouse News Service, of a female circumcision rite in Kenya.
1997:Alexander Zemlianichenko, Associated Press, for his photograph of Russian President Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock concert during his campaign for re-election. This was originally nominated in the Spot News Photography section, but was moved by the board to Feature Photography.
1998: Clarence Williams, Los Angeles Times, for his powerful images documenting the plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs.
2001: Matt Rainey, Star-Ledger (New Jersey), for his emotional photographs that illustrate the care and recovery of two students critically burned in a dormitory fire at Seton Hall University.
2003: Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times, for his memorable portrayal of how undocumented Central American youths, often facing deadly danger, travel north to the United States.
2004:Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times, for her cohesive, behind-the-scenes look at the effects of civil war in Liberia, with special attention to innocent citizens caught in the conflict.
2005: Deanne Fitzmaurice, San Francisco Chronicle, for her sensitive photo essay on an Oakland hospital's effort to mend an Iraqi boy nearly killed by an explosion. View photo essay.
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