Year | Photographer | Organization | Subject | Web links |
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2000 | Staff | Rocky Mountain News | "for its photographic coverage of students following the shooting at Columbine High School near Denver." | images |
2001 | Alan Diaz | Associated Press | "for his photograph of federal agents removing Elián González from his uncle's home." | image |
2002 | Staff | The New York Times | "for its coverage of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center." | images |
2003 | Staff | Rocky Mountain News | "for its powerful, imaginative coverage of Colorado's raging forest fires." | images |
2004 | David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer | The Dallas Morning News | "for their eloquent photographs depicting both the violence and poignancy of the war in Iraq." | images |
2005 | Staff | Associated Press | "for its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities." | images |
2006 | Staff | The Dallas Morning News | "for its vivid photographs depicting the chaos and pain after Hurricane Katrina engulfed New Orleans." | images |
2007 | Oded Balilty | Associated Press | "for his powerful photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they remove illegal settlers in the West Bank." | image |
2008 | Adrees Latif | Reuters | "for his dramatic photograph of a Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar." [5] | image |
2009 | Patrick Farrell | The Miami Herald | "for his provocative, impeccably composed images of despair after Hurricane Ike and other lethal storms caused a humanitarian disaster in Haiti." | image |
2010 | Mary Chind | The Des Moines Register | "for her photograph of the heart-stopping moment when a rescuer dangling in a makeshift harness tries to save a woman trapped in the foaming water beneath a dam." | image |
2011 | Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn, and Ricky Carioti | The Washington Post | "for their up-close portrait of grief and desperation after a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti." | images |
2012 | Massoud Hossaini | Agence France-Presse | "for his heartbreaking image of a girl crying in fear after a suicide bomber's attack at a crowded shrine in Kabul." | images |
2013 | Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Khalil Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen | Associated Press | "for their compelling coverage of the civil war in Syria." | images |
2014 | Tyler Hicks | The New York Times | "for courageously documenting a deadly terrorist attack at a Nairobi shopping mall." | images |
2015 | Staff | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | "for powerful images of the despair and anger in Ferguson, Missouri, stunning photojournalism that served the community while informing the country." [6] | images |
2016 | Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks, and Daniel Etter | The New York Times | "for photographs that captured the resolve of refugees, the perils of their journeys and the struggle of host countries to take them in." | images |
Staff | Reuters | "for gripping photographs, each with its own voice, that follow migrant refugees hundreds of miles across uncertain boundaries to unknown destinations." | images |
2017 | Daniel Berehulak | The New York Times | "for powerful storytelling through images published in The New York Times showing the callous disregard for human life in the Philippines brought about by a government assault on drug dealers and users." [7] | images |
2018 | Ryan Kelly | The Daily Progress | "for a chilling image that reflected the photographer's reflexes and concentration in capturing the moment of impact of a car attack during a racially charged protest in Charlottesville, Va." [8] | images |
2019 | Staff | Reuters | "for a vivid and startling visual narrative of the urgency, desperation and sadness of migrants as they journeyed to the U.S. from Central and South America." [9] | images |
2020 | Staff | Reuters | "for wide-ranging and illuminating photographs of Hong Kong as citizens protested infringement of their civil liberties and defended the region's autonomy by the Chinese government." [10] | images |
2021 | Staff | Associated Press | "for a collection of photographs from multiple U.S. cities that cohesively captures the country's response to the death of George Floyd." [11] | images |
2022 | Marcus Yam | Los Angeles Times | "for raw and urgent images of the U.S. departure from Afghanistan that capture the human cost of the historic change in the country." | images |
Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum and Jon Cherry | Getty Images | "for comprehensive and consistently riveting photos of the attack on the U.S. Capitol." [12] | images |
2023 | Staff | Associated Press | "In recognition of 15 searing images that rendered in real-time the devastating human toll of the war in Ukraine". [13] | images |
2024 | Staff | Reuters | "for raw and urgent photographs documenting the October 7th deadly attack in Israel by Hamas and the first weeks of Israel's devastating assault on Gaza." | images |
2025 | Doug Mills | The New York Times | "for a sequence of photos of the attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, including one image that captures a bullet whizzing through the air as he speaks." | images |