Feature Photography

For her intimate essay, shot in shadowy black and white, documenting the shattered lives of people entangled in prescription drug abuse.

For her heartwarming photographs of a grandfather raising three grandchildren after the violent death of his daughter and the loss of his wife to cancer.

For their extraordinary portrayal of daily life inside the reclusive nation of North Korea, including scenes after the death of Kim Jong Il.

For her poignant portrait of the suffering by desperate families and misunderstood children who live with autism.

For his sensitive portrayal of a large Colombian clan carrying a genetic mutation that causes Alzheimer’s disease in early middle age.

For his pictures that show the mixed impact of the recession in Florida – loss of jobs and homes for some but profit for others.

For her courageous work published in The Washington Times that vividly documents how rapes, by the tens of thousands, have become a weapon of war in Congo.

For his sensitive portrayal of homeless suburban families camping in motels during the recession, often recording memorable emotional moments.

For her powerfully intimate coverage of the perils and sorrow of childbirth in Sierra Leone, where women face the world’s highest rate of maternal mortality.

For her empathetic portrait of palliative care in a Texas medical center as terminally ill patients cope with the end of their lives.

For his harrowing portfolio of Vietnamese children afflicted by the toxic legacy of Agent Orange, three decades after the Vietnam War ended.

For her memorable pictures of disadvantaged Texans hidden amid the state's economic abundance.

For her haunting depiction of sub-Sahara African women afflicted with fistula after childbirth.

For his vivid images of Central Americans who, desperate to enter America illegally, risk their lives leaping on Mexican freight trains rumbling northward.

For his imaginative exploration of Holocaust survivors as Judaism faces a new century.

For his sensitive portrayal of two remote Eskimo villages coping with memories of sexual abuse by a missionary 30 years ago.

For his poignant portrait of a woman soldier's struggle to recover from grave shrapnel wounds to her head.

For his iconic photograph of an exhausted U.S. Marine's face after a daylong battle in Iraq.

For their imaginative and sophisticated coverage of California's extraordinary recall election.

For his unforgettable picture of a burly American medic in Iraq cuddling a child whose mother had just been killed in a crossfire (moved by the jury from the Breaking News Photography category).

For his striking images that documented the little known legacy of black sharecroppers who migrated to California's San Joaquin Valley during the Depression.

For "Heroin Town," his dramatic pictures that spotlighted heroin addiction in a Connecticut city and helped produce positive change.

For his diverse images portraying American life in the sprawl of south Florida's Broward County.

For their compelling and explanatory images illustrating the devastating impact of AIDS in the Caribbean.

For his moving photographs of North and South Koreans visiting relatives they had not seen in half a century, and other images generated by the Korean governments' reunification efforts.

For his illuminating images of suburban high school students facing adulthood.

For their photographs of Liberty City, a neighborhood crippled by drugs and violence, which detail the community's effort to reclaim the area.

For its moving photographs of the grief and devastation that followed a local fire that killed six firefighters.

For his skillful and moving portraits of local children growing up in decaying residential motels.

For his inspirational images that trace the work of Donald Anderson, a descendent of slaves, who helps the residents of poor Southern communities assume civic responsibility and improve their lives.

For his revealing photographic account of a secret interstate network of individuals who aid parents and children fleeing the threat of sexual abuse. (Moved by the jury from the Spot News Photography category.)

For his gripping photographs depicting the effects of war and land mines in Angola.

For his series of photographs chronicling an illegal immigrant's clandestine journey from Mexico to the United States.

For his photographs documenting the horrifying conditions in Venezuelan prisons.

For her photographs of a woman with terminal breast cancer preparing for her death

For his photographs documenting how the lives of two teenagers were transformed by the birth of their child.

For his series of portraits from Bosnia.

For his series of photographs, published by Newhouse News Service, of a woman's fight against breast cancer.

For its collection of life-affirming images, drawn from the daily activities of local residents.

For "The Exhausted Earth," a year-long series depicting the social, medical and environmental crises caused by the depletion of natural resources.

For "American Dreamers," her series of photographs of a working-class family coping with hardships while striving for a better life.

For its collection of images about the Middle East, including those that illustrate the turbulent lives of Arabs and Jews in Israel.

For her photographs of the famine, war and American relief efforts in Somalia.

For its photographs from Somalia of the struggle for survival of a nation and its people.

For his photographs of the dangerous journey of illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexican border.

For his photographs depicting the harshness and misery of the Kurdish refugee camps.

For his photographic essay about a senior citizen who returned to her former high school to complete her education.

For his series of photographs depicting Yosemite National Park and its visitors during the park's centennial year.

For a series of photographs of a mother and her struggle to resist committing child abuse.

For photographs of East and West Germans celebrating the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

For their photographs of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and its aftermath.

For her photograph of grieving Dallas police officers at the funeral of a slain patrolman.

For his photographs of atomic bomb survivors in Japan.

For his photograph of a homeless man in Philadelphia.

For a photograph taken on Veterans Day at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

For her photographs of AIDS victims.

For her sensitive photographs of a Cambodian refugee child whose mother died of cancer.

For his photographs of civil strife in South Africa.

For his photographs depicting the decline and despair of the American farmer.

For her pictures of a dying girl which celebrated the girl's life.

For his dramatic photos of the famine in Ethiopia.

For his series of unusual photographs which reveal the effects of war on the people of Lebanon. (Moved by the Board to the Spot News Photography category.)

For his series of photographs depicting the child victims of war-torn Central America.

For his picture story of a sick child's struggle for life.

For a variety of photographs depicting life in Chicago.

For photos of life in a public housing project.

For coverage of a family confronting the death of one of its members.

For his photographs of the Mississippi Delta Region.

For his photographs of automobile workers.

For a series on children of Cambodia.

For a series on living and dying in a hospice.