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 Don Bartletti of Los Angeles Times for his memorable portrayal of how undocumented Central American youths, often facing deadly danger, travel north to the United States.

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (left) presents Don Bartletti with the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography.

Finalists

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Matt Black, freelance photographer for the Los Angeles Times, for his striking images that documented the little known legacy of black sharecroppers who migrated to California's San Joaquin Valley during the Depression, and Brad Clift of The Hartford Courant for "Heroin Town," his dramatic pictures that spotlighted heroin addiction in a Connecticut city and helped produce positive change.