OVER 50 YEARS OF
GLOBAL INFLUENCE
How the Pulitzer Prize has shaped photojournalism across the world.
Craig F. Walker | 2009 Hours after Ian’s family threw a goodbye bash for him with cake and ice cream, his friends gave him a different party with beer pong and affection from his girlfriend.
Josh Haner | 2014 Jeff Bauman rests at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital after having his lower legs blown off in the first of two pressure cooker bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon.
Jessica Rinaldi | 2015 During this unsettling time for the family, Strider wanders into his old bedroom and looks at many of his belongings that will not make the next move and will be left behind.
Amit Dave | 2021 A healthcare worker checks the temperature of a woman inside her hut during a coronavirus disease vaccination drive for workers at a brick kiln in Kavitha village near Ahmedaba, India.
Narciso Contreras | 2012 A rebel fighter gestures for victory after firing a shoulder-fired missile toward a building where Syrian troops loyal to President Bashar Assad were hiding.
Ivor Prickett | 2017 Islamic State prisoners peer from a jail cell south of Mosul. On the outskirts of the city, thousands of men accused of joining or helping the Islamic State awaited their fates in sweltering and cramped jails.
Alex Brandon | 2020 A demonstrator stares at a National Guard solider as protests continue over the death of George Floyd, June 3, 2020, near the White House in Washington, D.C.
Samuel Corum | 2021 Police officers attempt to push back pro-Trump supporters trying to storm the U.S. Capitol following a “Save America” rally with Donald Trump on January 6 in Washington.
E. Jason Wambsgans | 2016 Tavon Tanner, 11, is one of 24 children 12 or younger shot in Chicago in 2016.
Jim MacMillan | 2004 U.S. soldiers take cover in a fortified position after a second week of fighting against Shiite militiamen in the holy city.
Daniel Berehulak | 2014 Workers entering the high-risk zone of the Bong County Ebola treatment center in Liberia.
Christina House | 2022 Eddie, 26, panhandles at a freeway offramp in Hollywood hoping to make money to take out his pregnant girlfriend Mckenzie Trahan on her 23rd birthday.
Irwin Thompson | 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall with a vengeance, wrenching the roof off Backyard Bar B Que, 10 miles west of New Orleans.
Tyler Hicks | 2013 A woman tried to shelter children from gunfire by Somali militants at the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, in an attack that killed more than 70 people.
Tyrone Siu | 2019 An anti-government protester, who later identified himself as a university student, is chased by riot policemen after skirmishes at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Ibraheem Abu Mustafa | 2023 A wounded Palestinian girl screams “Ya Allah,” (“Oh, my God!”) as she is brought on a stretcher into Nasser hospital, following Israeli strikes on the Ma’an school, amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip.
Annie Wells | 1996 A local firefighter rescues a teenager from raging floodwaters in Santa Rosa, CA.
Damon Winter | 2008 Secret service agents tugging at the hands of a supporter as she hugged Mr. Obama at Legend’s Field in Tampa, Fla.
Cheryl Diaz Meyer | 2003 Risking their lives to save another, Lt. Jeffrey Goodman and Lance Cpl. Jorge Sanchez of the 2nd Tank Battalion drag a wounded civilian to safety after he was caught in the midst of battle on the road to Baghdad.
J.B. Forbes | 2014 The emotional toll of a week of protesting appears on the face of a St. Louis County police officer as marchers yell profanity at the officers on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson.