2018 Pulitzer Prize photography winners announced

24 April 2018

The winners of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News and Feature Photography have recently been announced. Not surprisingly, three of the photographers recognised amongst the winners and finalsts for the Pultizer also received high accolades and high praise for their work submitted for the World Press Photo contest.

Ryan Kelly of The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va. won the Pultizer in the Breaking News category for a chilling image that reflected his reflexes and concentration in capturing the moment of impact of a car attack during a racially charged protest in Charlottesville, Va. The image received second prize in the Spot News (Singles) category of World Press Photo.

Image by Ryan M. Kelly, for The Daily Progress.

Ivor Prickett, a freelance photographer, The New York Times was named as a Finalist in the category for his heartbreaking and frightening images that brought a fresh approach to classic war photography and gave an intimate view of the impact on shell-shocked survivors of what ISIS left behind in Mosul and Raqqa. Two of Prickett's images made the top six in the running for World Press Photo of the Year. He also won first prize in the General News (Stroies) category.

Image by Ivor Prickett, for The New York Times.

The Photography Staff of Reuters took out the Feature Photography category for their shocking photographs that exposed the world to the violence Rohingya refugees faced in fleeing Myanmar. (The original submissions was moved by the Board from the Breaking News Photography category, where it was entered.)

Image by Photography Staff of Reuters.
Mohammed Shoaib, 7, who was shot in his chest before crossing the border from Myanmar in August, is held by his father outside a medical centre near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, November 5, 2017. — Image by Photography Staff of Reuters. Mohammed Shoaib, 7, who was shot in his chest before crossing the border from Myanmar in August, is held by his father outside a medical centre near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh,
November 5, 2017.

Fianlists for Feature Photography included Kevin Frayer (freelance photographer, Getty Images), Meridith Kohut (freelance photographer, The New York Times), and Lisa Krantz (San Antonio Express-News).

Australia's very own Daniel Berehulak hold the honour of winning the Pulitzer not once, but twice, in 2015 for a series of poignant portraits documenting Ebola's deadly spread in West Africa and in 2017 for for his coverage of Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal war on drugs.

The Jury

Sherman Williams (Chair) – Assistant Managing Editor, Visual Journalism, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Andrea Bruce –Photographer, NOOR Images, Mt. Rainier, MD

Danese Kenon – Deputy Director of Photography for Video/Multimedia, Tampa Bay Times

Michelle McDonald – Photo Editor, Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram

Shazna Nessa –Deputy Managing Editor and Global Head of Visuals, The Wall Street Journal

Full annoucnement can be seen below.