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, Seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500).

Awarded to Matt Rainey of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J., for his emotional photographs that illustrate the care and recovery of two students critically burned in a dormitory fire at Seton Hall University.

Columbia University President George Rupp (left) presents Matt Rainey with the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: David Guttenfelder of the Associated Press 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, and Marc Piscotty of the Denver Rocky Mountain News for his illuminating images of suburban high school students facing adulthood.