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1. NEWSP_191231_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2019_DC_Newseum_Pulitzer DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (1) Pulitzer Prize Photographs (4 photos from 2019)
  2019 Breaking News Migrants' Perilous Journey Adrees Latif Reuters photo staff Oct. 24, 2018, Huixtla, Mexico Adrees Latif, Reuters As the sun rose over Huixtla, Mexico, photographer Adrees Latif snapped a photo of a girl wearing a purple backpack, clutching a doll and hoping to hitch a ride. "It looks almost like she's going to school," said Latif. But she was one of thousands of Central American migrants fleeing hometowns racked by violence to seek asylum in the United States. The journey took them across rushing rivers and through thick forests. Migrants woke at 3am to walk 30 to 100 miles to the next town along the road. In Huixtla, thousands of migrants had gathered. "It was a chaotic scene," said Latif. "Trucks pulled up and people rushed to them." Latif, who emigrated from Pakistan at age 7, spent five months covering the story with 10 other Reuters photographers. The experience left him deeply moved. "Why would parents want to cross a river that's deep and flowing fast with children in their arms? They're taking extremely high risks to get to the U.S. Why would somebody do that?" said Latif. "America is still the land of opportunity."
2. NEWSP_191231_06.JPG: Breaking News
3. NEWSP_191231_14.JPG: 2019 Feature Famine in Yemen Lorenzo Tugnoli The Washington Post Dec. 31, 2018, Yemen Lorenzno Tugnoli for the Washington Post Four years of civil war have pushed Yemen to the brink. Fighting between Houthi rebels and the Saudi Arabia-backed government has left 70,000 people dead, 3 million displaced and 2 million children on the verge of starvation. In a hospital in Aden, photographer Lorenzo Tugnoli met 3-year-old Ayesha Ahmed, clutching a snack bar. The malnourished girl weighed 9 pounds -- the size of a newborn. Her family escaped intense fighting in her village to seek treatment for her. But a local militia took over the hospital, selling off medical supplies for profit. Doctors went on strike. Nurses braved harassment by the militiamen to care for Ayesha and other patients. Eventually, the militia was removed. Tugnoli doesn't know what happened to Ayesha but plans to return to Yemen. He hopes his photos provoke questions. "The question here is how is it possible that something like this happens, and how is it possible that there is so little interest in a conflict like this?"
4. NEWSP_191231_19.JPG: Feature
5. NEWSP_180613_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2018_DC_Newseum_Pulitzer DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (1) Pulitzer Prize Photographs (6 photos from 2018)
6. NEWSP_180613_19.JPG: 2018 Feature Refugees Flee Myanmar Adnan Abidi Reuters photo staff Nov. 5, 2017, Bangladesh Adnan Abidi, Reuters The assignment left Adnan Abidi shaken. One of seven photographers Reuters sent to cover Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar, he said: "I pray nobody sees this again." Thousands of desperate refugees slogged through the muddy, waist-deep Naf River into Bangladesh. People carried aging parents and children on their shoulders. One woman fainted and fell on Abidi's feet. Myanmar's violent 2017 campaign to oust Rohingya militants spurred nearly 700,000 Rohingya -- a mostly Muslim minority group in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar -- to escape to refugee camps in Bangladesh. United Nations officials have called Myanmar's actions ethnic cleansing. At a camp medical center, Abidi shared tea with a man who said his entire family was killed, except for his son, Mohammed Shoaib, 7. The boy removed his shirt to reveal a jagged scar left by a bullet. "When you see a child like this, you are just shattered," Abidi said. "What did he do to anybody? He's a harmless young kid. Why did he deserve this?"
7. NEWSP_180613_36.JPG: 2018 Breaking News Deadly Virginia Protest Ryan M. Kelly The Daily Progress Aug. 12, 2017, Charlottesville, Va. For months, photographer Ryan Kelly had been covering the anger brewing in Charlottesville, Va., over a plan to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. As darkness fell on Aug. 11, 2017, hundreds of white nationalists bearing torches and tear gas marched toward the University of Virginia campus, chanting, "White lives matter!" and "Jews will not replace us!" The next day, the Unite the Right rally exploded in violence. Protesters and counterprotesters traded punches and swung clubs. By noon, the city had declared a state of emergency. Kelly followed counterprotesters as they began to disperse. Suddenly, a gray Dodge Challenger plowed through the crowd. Bodies flew. Heather Heyer, 32, was killed; 19 others were injured. The driver fled but was quickly arrested. "I wish the attack didn't happen," Kelly said. "I wish I didn't have to witness it. But since it did happen, and I was on that street, I'm proud this photo exists so that the world can never forget exactly what violence and hatred looks like."
8. NEWSP_171005_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2017_DC_Newseum_Pulitzer DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (1) Pulitzer Prize Photographs (3 photos from 2017)
  2017 Pulitzer Prize Photography Winners
9. NEWSP_171005_03.JPG: 2017 Feature Caught in the Crossfire E. Jason Wambsgans Chicago Tribune Oct. 14, 2016 Chicago 2016 was Chicago's deadliest year in nearly two decades. Nightly shootings in the city's poorest neighborhoods sent the murder rate soaring. Dozens of victims were children: innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire. Tavon Tanner, 10, was gazing at the moon from his family's porch when a bullet ripped through his body, tearing into his pancreas, stomach, spleen, a kidney and his left lung before lodging below his shoulder. His sister screamed, "Twin, don't leave me." Chicago Tribune photographer Jason Wambsgans was with the family as Tavon recovered and had surgery to remove the bullet. Tavon has nightmares and a permanent risk of infection. His mother left her job to care for him. Months later, his shooter remained unknown. The first time he met Tavon, Wambsgans asked the boy to show him his scar. Tavon lifted his shirt. "I shot two frames and I looked at the back of my camera and a shock went through me," said Wambsgans. "I turned the camera off and thanked him. I knew it was more than enough to tell the story."
10. NEWSP_171005_12.JPG: 2017 Breaking News Philippine Drug War Daniel Berehulak Freeland Oct. 9, 2016, the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte rose to power in the Philippines in 2016 on a promise to kill 100,000 criminals and dump their bodies in Manila Bay to "fatten all the fish there." In the months that followed, thousands of people, including innocent victims, were gunned down in the streets by police and armed vigilantes. Freelance photographer Daniel Berehulak covered the story for The New York Times. Over 35 days, he photographed 57 murder victims in Manila, the capital. Berehulak's photos exposed the gruesome realities of the government's war on drugs: bodies lying on trash heaps, stacked like firewood in a morgue or with their heads wrapped in packing tape alongside cardboard signs labeling them drug addicts or dealers. "They are slaughtering us like animals," a bystander said. At one man's wake, his 6-hear-old daughter screamed "Papa" as his coffin was removed. "These aren't bodies," said Berehulak. "These are family members, these are husbands, these are fathers. What I was trying to do was to give these people a face and a name."
11. NEWSP_160925_005.JPG: 2016 Feature A Child's Despair Jessica Rinaldi, The Boston Globe Strider Wolf was 2 when his mother's boyfriend dragged him to a shed and beat him so badly that his bowels ruptured. Strider required a feeding tube for months and was left emotionally scarred. Three years later, he and his younger brother, Gallagher, were living with their grandparents when the family behind on the rent. Evicted from their mobile home, they crammed into a rundown camper, moving from one campsite to the next. Boston Globe photographer Jessica Rinaldi and reporter Sarah Schweitzer spent five months covering the family's daily struggle to survive. One stressful day, Rinaldi captured a photo a tired and grimy Strider, hunched in the backseat of the family's car after his brother bit him. Strider's story helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for the family, who moved into a rental home. "It reminds you that this kind of work really matters to people," said Rinaldi. "That's what we all hope for in the end, that by shining a light on things it will somehow help."
12. NEWSP_160925_012.JPG: 2016 Breaking News A Perilous Journey Danie Etter, Tyler Hicks, Maurico Lima and Sergey Ponomarev (photo shown), The New York Times In 2015, the Greek island of Lesbos, a popular tourist spot, became the center of Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Freelance photographer Serger Ponomarev spent five months covering the story for The New York Times. Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan braved rough seas on flimsy rubber dinghies known as "death boats" to make the 6-mile journey from Turkey to Greece, often at night. Human smugglers charged more than $1,500 a person for a spent on the overcrowded boats. For hundreds, the trip proved deadly. On Nov. 16, Ponomarev photographed a small wooden boat overloaded with migrants arrived on Lesbos's rocky coast. As they neared the island, the passengers jumped into the frigid water, anxious to reach the shore. They would face cultural backlash and closed borders, as the human tide overwhelmed Europe. "It's just a small part of a huge story," said Ponomarev. "The arrival part is over; the next part will be trying to deal with your new life."
13. NEWSP_160925_027.JPG: 2016 Breaking News Europe's Refugee Crisis Reuters Photo Staff, Photos by Yannis Behrahis Reuters photographer Yannis Behrakis spent decades covering wars and refugees around the world. In 2015, the refugee crisis arrived on the shores of his native Greece. Hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty flooded the country. Berharis followed them as they headed north, seeking a new life in Europe. On a rainy September day, Behrakis photographed migrants as they tried to cross Greece's border into Macedonia. "It was muddy and miserable," said Behrakis. "People were desperate. The Macedonian police started beating some people, pushing some people back." Migrants fell to their knees, pleading with police to let them pass. Behrakis shot one frame before the police pushed him away. Hours later, the border reopened and the migrants were allowed through. The grandson of refugees, Behrakis felt a deep connection with the migrants. "I felt that I was the voice of these refugees calling humanity for help," he said.
14. NEWSP_160925_034.JPG: Carol Guzy's Camera and Notebook Photographer Carol Guzy has won four Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other journalist. She used this camera and notebook while on assignment in Haiti for The Washington Post. One of Guzy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Hait photos is on the other side of this case.
15. NEWSP_160925_046.JPG: 1957: Sinking of the Andrea Doria
16. NEWSP_160925_049.JPG: Harry Trask's Camera: Boston Traveler photographer Harry Trask used this Graflex Speed Graphic to shoot this Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the 1956 sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria. Fifty-one people died when the luxury liner collided with another ship off Nantucket Island, Mass.
17. NEWSP_160925_051.JPG: 2006 Feature Final Salute Todd Heisler, Rocky Mountain News On an airport tarmac in Reno, Nev., a pregnant woman waited to say her final goodbye to her husband, a U.S. Marine. As the plane taxied to a stop, the cargo hold opened to reveal 2nd Lt. James Cathey's flag-draped casket. He was killed in an explosion in Iraq. Rocky Mountain News photographer Todd Heisler stood next to Cathey's widow, Katherine, at the airport. "When Katherine first saw the casket, she just let out this scream," said Heisler. "At one point, I had to just put the camera down and stare that the ground because it was just so personal." For nine months, Heisler and reporter Jim Sheeler followed Marine Maj. Steve Beck and his team as they notified families that their loved ones had been killed in Iraq and guided them through their grief. "By seeing the dedication that they were giving to these families, I felt that I should be giving them nothing less myself, nothing less tha everything that I could give to the photographs emotionally," said Heisler.
18. NEWSP_160925_061.JPG: Nick Ut's Camera Associated Press photographer Nick Ut used this Leica M2 to shoot this Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of children burned by napalm in South Vietnam in 1972.
19. NEWSP_160925_070.JPG: 1973 Spot News: Horror of War Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut / The Associated Press
20. NEWSP_160925_075.JPG: 1995 Spot News: Crisis in Haiti Carol Guzy / The Washington Post
21. NEWSP_160925_080.JPG: Jahangir Razmi's Camera Iranian photographer Jahangir Razmi used this Nikon camera to capture his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a firing squad execution during Iran's 1979 revolution. Razmi's photo, seen on the other side of this case, won the 1980 Pulitzer, but his identity was withheld for fear of retaliation from the regime.
22. NEWSP_160925_084.JPG: Revealing Razmi's Identity Wall Street Journal reporter Joshua Prager spent years investigating the identity of the anonymous winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. In a 2006 story, he revealed that Jahangir Razmi was the photographer. Prager used this notebook to record his notes from his interview with Razmi.
23. NEWSP_160925_089.JPG: 1980 Spot News: Firing Squad in Iran Jahangir Razmi / Corbis
24. NEWSP_160925_092.JPG: Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Lynsey Addario, pictured in Afghanistan in 2010, got her first camera -- a Nikon -- from her father when she was 13. Since then, she has used Nikons to cover conflicts around the world.
25. NEWSP_160925_094.JPG: Photojournalists work under high pressure, often in brutal conditions, from war zones to natural disasters. As the speed of news has dramatically increased, so have technological breakthroughs in photography that continue to change how stories are covered today. Since the Pulitzer Prize for photography was established in 1942, more than 70 Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs have been taken using Nikons -- more than any other type of camera. To mark Nikon's 100th anniversary in 2017, this exhibit showcases Nikon cameras that represent advances in photojournalism.
26. NEWSP_160925_098.JPG: Evolution of the Modern Press Camera In the 1960s, the 35 mm single-lens reflex (SLR) camera -- popularized by the Nikon F -- became the photojournalist's tool of choice. Smaller, lighter and faster than its predecessors, the camera gave photographers more freedom and flexibility in the field. Other advances soon followed. By the 1990s, digital cameras began to replace film, freeing photographers from transporting and processing film. Now, images can be transmitted from the field to the newsroom in the blink of the eye. The five Nikon cameras featured here highlight advances in photography from the 1950s to today.
27. NEWSP_160925_102.JPG: Nikon F Released in 1959 With its compact size and interchangeable lenses, the Nikon F was a breakthrough for photographers used to cumbersome cameras with slower shooting speeds and fixed lenses. The Nikon F's motor drive meant that up to four frames of film could be shot per second, critical for covering breaking news.
28. NEWSP_160925_106.JPG: Nikonos Released in 1963 Undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau inspired the waterproof Nikonos, which could capture photos 200 feet under water. The camera's ability to withstand swampy conditions made it popular with Vietnam War photojournalists. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Kyoichi Sawada called the Nikonos "the workhorse of the war."
29. NEWSP_160925_111.JPG: Nikon F3 Released in 1980 The F3 -- Nikon's first professional SLR camera that could shoot automatically -- made it easier that ever to capture breaking news. The F3 was used to cover events from the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles to civil wars in El Salvador and Angola. The camera was so popular that Nikon produced it for 21 years.
30. NEWSP_160925_116.JPG: Nikon D1 Released in 1999 In the early 1990s, digital cameras were bulky and expensive. Nikon's compact D1 was the first all-digital SLR camera widely adopted by photojournalists. Photos could be transmitted from anywhere in the world within minutes using cellphones and satellite dishes.
31. NEWSP_160925_121.JPG: Nikon D3 Released in 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers used the Nikon D3 digital camera to cover breaking news from the 2010 earthquake in Haiti to the war in Afghanistan. The camera's full-frame imaging sensor allowed photographers to capture photos in low light like never before, while a wireless transmitter sped transmission from the field.
32. NEWSP_160925_146.JPG: 2007 Breaking News Defending the Barricade Oded Balilty, The Associated Press In February 2006, a dispute over an unauthorized settlement in the West Bank pitted Jewish settlers against the Israeli government. Israeli authorities said the nine houses were built illegally on Palestinian land. As Israeli security forces surrounded the area, the settlers barricaded themselves in the houses and set tires ablaze. Associated Press photographer Oded Balilty watched club-wielding riot police clash with protesters slinging stones and chunks of concrete. Dozens of demonstrators were arrested. More than 200 people were injured. As a line of police officers marched toward one house, Balilty noticed a defiant teenage girl standing firm. "They came and she ran into them," he said. Moments later, the police dragged the girl by the hair and beat her with clubs. Within hours, the houses were rubble.
33. NEWSP_160228_18.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2016_DC_Newseum_Pulitzer DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (1) Pulitzer Prize Photographs (29 photos from 2016)
  "Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together." -- Joseph Pulitzer Portrait of Joseph Pulitzer, 1905 John Singer Sargent Loan, Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911) was a Hungarian immigrant who fought in the Union Army in the US Civil War and went on to become one of the nation's most influential journalists. The portrait of Pulitzer was painted in 1905 by John Singer Sargent, the foremost portrait artist of his time. As owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World, Pulitzer crusaded against injustice and political corruption and fought for progressive causes and freedom of the press. He made newspapers more accessible through exposes, sensationalized stories, publicity stunts and innovative features such as comics and sports coverage.
34. NEWSP_160228_22.JPG: A Portrait of Joseph Pulitzer To mark the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes, the Newseum is exhibiting a rarely seen portrait of Joseph Pulitzer, the influential editor who established the prizes. Painted by noted 19th-century artist John Singer Sargent, the portrait will be displayed in the Pulitzer Prize Photographs Gallery through 2016. Pulitzer, owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World, provided the prizes in his will to honor the best of journalism, the arts and literature. Turn right after the curved wall to see the portrait, located next to the gallery's interactive stations.
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  2015 Feature: Ebola Ravages West Africa: For 103 days, Daniel Berehulak, a freelance photographer for The New York Times, donned a face mask, rubber boots and three pairs of gloves to photograph the deadly trail of the Ebola virus as it swept through West Africa in 2014. "Burial teams couldn't pick up bodies fast enough," said Berehulak. At an overflowing treatment facility in Monrovia, Liberia, he found gravely ill James Dorbor, 8, and his frantic father amid a chaotic scene of people sprawled in the dirt, desperate for treatment. James convulsed and went limp before the clinic doors opened, barely clinging to life. As two health care workers carried James inside, holding him "like he was a bag of garbage" to avoid contact with the virus, Berehulak shot his photograph. Moments later, James died -- another victim of the relentless outbreak that killed more than 10,000. "People have commented on how callous the health care workers look," said Berehulak. "That's the nature of the virus, not their behavior. It's a virus that preys on our humanity, that preys on our caring for loved ones."
36. NEWSP_150608_11.JPG: 2015 Breaking News Protests in Ferguson Furious protests erupted in the streets of Ferguso, Mo., after unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot to death by a white police officer on Aug. 9, 2014. Police in riot gear used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the demonstrators, but still the protesters marched in anger and despair. On the fourth night of protests, St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer Robert Cohen watched as police again fired tear gas into the crowd. Suddenly, a young man wearing an American flag shirt grabbed a flaming tear gas canister and hurled it back toward police. Cohen shot the image and posted it on Twitter, where it instantly went viral. Published in newspapers around the world and copied on T-shirts, murals and tattoos, the image became a symbol of the protests. "I think protesters relate to that act of defiance, that act of fighting back," Cohen said. One of 11 members of the Post-Dispatch photo staff who shared the Pulitzer Price for their Ferguson coverage, Cohen said, "I don't celebrate it, because it began with an 18-year-old dead in the street."
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  2014 Feature Boston Bombing Survivor Jeff Bauman, 27, was waiting to cheer his girlfriend at the Boston Marathon finish line when two pressure-cooker bombs exploded, shredding his legs and puncturing both eardrums. A photo of an ashen-faced Bauman taken moments after the attack appeared on front pages around the world. New York Times photographer John Haner spent 21 days over three months documenting Bauman's arduous recovery and his adaptation to prosthetic legs. The first day, Bauman's mother kicked Haner out, fearing the photographer would be a distraction. Undaunted, Haner returned the next day to photograph Bauman's three-hour physical therapy session. Bauman finished his last 15 repetitions with a hand weight and slumped back, exhausted. Standing on a chair, Haner captured this image. Haner wants his photos of Bauman to remind people of the struggle ahead for the survivors of the bombing, which killed three people and wounded more than 260. Bauman "was a sporting event, and his life changed in the blink of an eye," said Haner.
38. NEWSP_140628_09.JPG: 2014 Breaking News Kenya Mall Massacre New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks was running errands in Nairobi, Kenya, when he got a tip about trouble at a nearby mall. He saw crowds fleeing the mall, "many of them shot, blood streaming from faces." Islamic militants armed with AK-47 assault rifles stalking the mall, shooting men, woman and children. Inside, Hicks spotted a woman with two young children lying on the floor. "They were petrified, completely still. All around them were bodies -- a man next ot an ATM machine, a woman still holding a shopping bag. I took the picture and was thrown out." At most 67 people were killed in the four-day siege of terror. After Hicks won the Pulitzer Prize, the woman emailed him. She revealed how she kept her 2-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter still during the attack. "She was humming and singing that mall music to calm the children. They lay there for five hours just hiding."
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  2013 Breaking News: A Son's Sorrow: Photographer Rodrigo Abd found the story of the Syrian civil war in the face of a child. At a graveyard in the rebel stronghold of Idlib, Abd joined mourners who came to bury husbands and fathers killed by government troops. As family members wailed, Adb photographed a grief-stricken boy in the crowd. The boy's name was Ahmed, and his father had been killed by a sniper. Government troops began closing in on Idlib. Fearing he would be captured or killed, Abd crept in the darkness past government checkpoints to flee to safety in Turkey. Adb was one of five Associated Press photographers who shared the Pulitzer Prize for their coverage in Syria. "For me, it was really important to put a face on the casualties," he said. "How they suffer, how they cry because of this conflict."
40. NEWSP_130605_14.JPG: 2013 Feature: Inside a Sniper's Nest: In the brutal Syrian war, snipers and tanks control the streets. Both sides rely heavily on snipers to spot and pin down the enemy. In Aleppo, freelance photographer Javier Manzano hoped he would not be a target as he darted across the streets and alleys. "I put my head down and ran," he said. Manzano entered a dark room thick with dust. Shafts of sunlight shone through bullet holes in the metal walls of the sniper's nest. Two Syrian rebel soldiers were on alert, one poised to fire. While in Syria, Manzano witnessed children "split in half by mortar shells" and civilians killed in a town square bombed by government planes. "These are images I do not want to revisit," he said. "You should not have to see the same massacre happening over and over again for two years."
41. NEWSP_120928_02.JPG: 2012 Feature Welcome Home Scott Ostrom returned from his second tour in Iraq with an honorable discharge from the Marines and post-traumatic streess disorder. For nine months, Denver Post photographer Craig Walker chronicles Ostrom's anxiety attacks, depression, and job and relationship struggles. Ostrom was haunted by memories of the brutality in Iraq and carried guilt for things he did and didn't do in a war he no longer believed in. He admitted to Walker. "I was a brutal killer and I rejoiced in it. Now I'm trying to adjust and feel human again." Walker photographed Ostrom looking over his military records and weeping after his application for a new apartment was rejected because of an assault charge. He'd been trying to escape an apartment that held only bad memories: two arrests and his own suicide attempt. One in five veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from PTSD, depression or both, said Walker, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for photos of a soldier's journey from high school to deployment. "These wars are going to affect not only veterans and their families but their communities and our nation for generations."
42. NEWSP_120928_09.JPG: 2012 Breaking News Suicide Bombing Agence France-Presse photographer Massoud Hossaini was shooting photos of a crown celebrating a Muslim holiday near a mosque in Kabal when a suicide bomber ignited a powerful explosion that threw Hossaini to the ground. His left hand bleeding, Hossaini grabbed his camera and ran toward the blast site. Amid the carnage stood 12-year-old Tarana Akbari wearing a bright green dress to mark the holiday. She was screaming in terror. At her feet lay the body of her 7-year-old brother, Shoaib, one of more than 70 people killed on Dec. 6, 2011. "A few seconds before I was recording smiling faces," recalled Hossaini, "then I was facing a circle of dead bodies piled up on each other." Hossaini's photograph ran on front pages around the world. The photographer wept for days. "This is the reality of Afghan life," said Hossaini, who was born in Afghanistan but left as a boy. "This is a real war, a war without reason, and it's really painful and it's really violent. Everybody who sees that picture sees our situation. Who are the victims? Children, women and civilians."
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44. NEWSP_110908_01.JPG: 2011 Feature Caught in the Crossfire Ten-year-old Erica Miranda was in pain as she stared out her hospital window. Two weeks earlier, she had been the victim of a gang-related shooting -- bullets tore through her back, knee and hip while she played basketball at a neighbor's house. Los Angeles Times photograph Barbara Davidson took photographs at the hospital as a nurse changed Erica's bandage: "The nurse had removed the dressing and... the scan was exposed," Davidson said. "Here you see this beautiful, innocent girl, and here you see this horrific scar. It's such a contrast between incredible beauty and incredible beauty and incredible horror." Davidson spent two years documenting the impact of gang violence in Los Angeles County. Her series chronicling the daily struggles of victims and their families raised awareness about the persistent problem of criminal gangs in the community. For Davidson, Erica's scar was a haunting symbol of the violence. "I thought that would be a powerful reminder to people in our community as to what was happening."
45. NEWSP_110908_12.JPG: 2011 Breaking News Earthquake in Haiti Washington Post photographer Carol Guzy arrived in Port-au-Prince the night after the earthquake struck on Jan. 12, 2010. The next morning, a man told Guzy he had heard screams coming from a nearby school. She rushed over to find a horrific scene: children at their chool desks, crushed to death in the collapse of the building. Families and residents searched desperately for survivors. Cindy Tersme lay upon the rubble and wailed in grief. "She was crying that she could see her brother's feet but she couldn't pull him out," Guzy said. I'm sure he was dead." Guzy stayed in Haiti several weeks. Colleagues Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti traveled there in the months that followed to photograph the earthquake's aftermath. A four-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Guzy had photographed Haitian tragedies before. But covering this disaster, which killed more than 300,000 people, was particularly difficult. "It just seemed unfair that they had to, yet again, weep over their dead," she said.
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  2011 Breaking News Earthquake in Haiti Washington Post photographer Carol Guzy arrived in Port-au-Prince the night after the earthquake struck on Jan. 12, 2010. The next morning, a man told Guzy he had heard screams coming from a nearby school. She rushed over to find a horrific scene: children at their school desks, crushed to death in the collapse of the building. Families and residents searched desperately for survivors. Cindy Tersme lay upon the rubble and wailed in grief. "She was crying that she could see her brother's feet but she couldn't pull him out," Guzy said. "I'm sure he was dead." Guzy stayed in Haiti several weeks. Colleagues Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti traveled there in the months that followed to photograph the earthquake's aftermath. A four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Guzy had photographed Haitian tragedies before. But covering this disaster, which killed more than 300,000 people, was particularly difficult. "It just seemed unfair that they had to, yet again, weep over their dead," she said.
47. NEWSP_110612_11.JPG: 2011 Feature Caught in the Crossfire Ten-year-old Erica Miranda was in pain as she stared out her hospital window. Two weeks earlier, she had been the victim of a gang-related shooting -- bullets tore through her back, knee and hip while she played basketball at a neighbor's house. Los Angeles Times photographer Barbara Davidson took photographs at the hospital as a nurse changed Erica's bandage. "The nurse had removed the dressing and... the scar was exposed," Davidson said. "Here you see this beautiful, innocent girl, and here you see this horrific scar. It's such as contrast between incredible beauty and incredible horror." Davidson spent two years documenting the impact of gang violence in Los Angeles County. Her series chronicling the daily struggled of victims and their families raised awareness about the persistent problem of criminal gangs in the community. For Davidson, Erica's scar was a haunting symbol of the violence. "I thought that would be a powerful reminder to people in our community as to what was happening."
48. NEWSP_100830_02.JPG: 2010 Feature American Soldier Two days after enlisting in the US Army, 18-year-old Ian Fisher was having second thoughts. Fisher had signed up for combat after the 2007 troop surge in Iraq, and he had agreed to let Denver Post photographer Craig F. Walker chronicle his journey from high school to deployment. The teenage was waiting to talk to his commander at Fort Benning, GA, while cradling an injured elbow that he saw as a possible way out. Walker framed a shot that captured what the photographer called Fisher's "love-hate relationship with the Army." Minutes later, the recruit "had a real heart-to-heart with his commander" and decided to move on to basic training. "After every down that Ian has, he always comes back," Walker said. Walker spent 27 months photographing Fisher as he matured from hard-partying teen to infantryman in Iraq, and overcome drug abuse, a demotion and a broken engagement. Through it all, Fisher never asked the photographer to put his camera down. Said Walker, "This story put a real human face on what's happened since 9/11." Craig F. Fisher The Denver Post June 20 2007, Fort Benning, GA
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  2010 Breaking News: River Rescue: During a couple's summer outing on the Des Moines River, their boat drifted over a dam, hurling them into the rolling waters below. Firefighters couldn't reach Patricia Ralph-Neely, 67, who was being sucked under by a powerful current. Des Moines Register photographer Mary Chind was watching from a crowded riverbank where she'd dropped off a camera lens for a colleague. Suddenly, she saw a construction crane moving toward the dam. Construction worker Jason Oglesbee was being lowered into the river. Using a 300 mm telephone lens -- shorter than ideal -- Chind braced her elbows and got a clear image. She focused on Ralph-Neely's hand. "Her hand was outstretched, and he got ahold of her forearm," Chind said. Ralph-Neely was lifted to safety. Ralph-Neely's husband, Alan, drowned that day, and Chind is sensitive about celebrating her award when "something tragic has happened to somebody in our hometown." After Chind won the Pulitzer, she was touched by a congratulatory note from Ralph-Neely telling her, "At least one of us was in the right place that day."
50. NEWSP_100619_13.JPG: 2010 Feature: American Soldier: Two days after enlisting in the US Army, 18-year-old Ian Fisher was having second thoughts. Fisher had signed up for combat after the 2007 troop surge in Iraq, and he had agreed to let Denver Post photographer Craig F Walker chronicle his journey from high school to deployment. The teenager was waiting to talk to his commander at Fort Benning, GA, while cradling an injured elbow that he saw as a possible way out. Walker framed a shot that captured what the photographer called Fisher's "love-hate relationship with the Army." Minutes later, the recruit "had a real heart-to-heart with his commander" and decided to move on to basic training. "After every down that Ian has, he always comes back," Walker said. Walker spent 27 months photographing Fisher as he matured from hard-partying teen to infantryman in Iraq, and overcame drug abuse, a demotion and a broken engagement. Through it all, Fisher never asked the photographer to put his camera down. Said Walker, "This story put a real human face on what's happened since 9/11."
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  2009 Feature: Historic Campaign: After nearly two years of campaigning, the candidate who would become the first black U.S. president was making his final push for votes. Damon Winter of The New York Times had been photographing Illinois Sen. Barack Obama on and off for months, taking tens of thousands of pictures. Winter had been on the campaign trail so often that he could recite Obama's stump speech himself. So he knew something special was happening when the candidate showed up an hour early to a cold, rain-soaked rally at Widener University in Chester, Pa., and began to give a rousing address. "I was excited. I just shot frame after frame after frame. I just knew there was going to be a really good image that came out of that," Winter said. "He looked very strong, and kind of defiant. ... He sort of embraced the moment, reveled in toughing out the nasty weather." One week later, Obama was elected president.
52. NEWSP_090808_15.JPG: 2009 Breaking News: After the Storm: In August and September 2008, the small Caribbean nation of Haiti, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, was devastated by four back-to-back tropical storms and hurricanes. After Tropical Storm Hanna hit, Patrick Farrell of The Miami Herald caught a United Nations helicopter into the mid-size city of Gonaives, which had been almost completely flooded. "I thought, 'Oh, my God. How can they recover?' " Farrell said. "People were just walking around in a daze and didn't fully grasp what had happened to them." Everywhere Farrell looked, Haitians were trying to salvage what they could. One naked, mud-caked boy was trying to rescue a damaged baby stroller from the muck. "Like pretty much everybody, he had lost everything," Farrell said. "To me, it relays the struggle, the aftermath of the storm, but it also kind of [makes you ask], 'Why?' " By the time the storms ended, nearly 800 Haitians had lost their lives and more than a million were left homeless.
53. NEWSP_090808_25.JPG: 2002 Breaking News: World Trade Center Attack
54. NEWSP_081109_07.JPG: 2003 Feature Chiapas Racers Photojournalist Don Bartletti documented the desperate migration of Central American children searching for parents who had immigrated to the United States. Traveling alone, the thousands of young immigrants faced danger not only from the treacherous journey but also from thugs, thieves, and rogue authorities. To retrace the route of Enrique, an Honduran teenager who had reunited successfully with his mother in North Carolina, Bartletti rode atop freight trains through the Mexican jungle. While he was clinging to a gasoline tank one day, a local boy and girl on horseback suddenly broke through the foliage and raced alongside the tracks. Within seconds the riders were gone, but Bartletti had captured their reactions to the stowaways aboard the train. "It was one of those moments on this trip, one of the few moments of joy, because everybody was yelling and clapping and "Yeah!," Bartletti recalled. "I've gotten reactions and letters from around the world [about the photograph]. I think what it gives people is a sense of joy and hope among such poverty."
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56. NEWSP_080625_03.JPG: 2008 Breaking News: Protests in Burma: Thousands of Buddhist monks took to the streets of Rangoon, Burma (also known as Myanmar), in September 2007 to demonstrate for freedom and democracy. The military dictatorship retaliated with a violent crackdown, raiding monasteries and arresting monks. On Sept. 27, civilian protesters filled the streets. Reuters photographer Adrees Latif positioned himself on a bridge crosswalk. From his perch, he saw green Army trucks filled with military riot police approaching the scene. Protesters threw fruit and water bottles at the soldiers, who opened fire. "From the right corner of my eye, I saw a person falling backwards through the air, and I just pointed my camera and started shooting," Latif recalled. He snapped four frames and then, dodging gunfire and smoke grenades, escaped down a collapsing stairway. Latif did not know for several hours that the man he photographed was Japanese photojournalist Kenji Negai, who was killed while covering the demonstrations. "We were both there to do the same thing," says Latif. "He shared the same passion I did about getting the story out."
57. NEWSP_080625_10.JPG: 2008 Feature: Record of a Life: Carolynne St. Pierre was dying of cancer, and she wanted her children to remember her. During the final year of her life, she and her husband, Rich, allowed Concord Monitor photographer Preston Gannaway and reporter Chelsea Conaboy to create a documentary record of a family coping with everyday moments of illness, love and loss. "Photojournalism can be sort of a 'taking thing,' because you are asking someone to let you into their life," said Gannaway. "A story like this is so personal and intimate, it made me feel better that they were getting something in return. Every photo I took I gave to Rich to keep for the kids." Throughout her illness, Carolynne wanted her children, Melissa, Brian and EJ, to live their lives as normally as possible. On the last day of her life, Carolynne was surrounded by her family in her bedroom. In that bathroom, 14-year-old Melissa got ready for her state championship gymnastics meet. Melissa later said she did not believe her mother would die that day. Her stepfather debated but let her attend the meet.
58. NEWSP_080622_009.JPG: 1942: The Picket Line It was April 3, 1941, day two of the first United Auto Workers' strike at the Ford Motor Co. factory in Detroit. The factory was closed; 120,000 workers were idle. Tensions ran high. Milton Brooks of The Detroit News joined journalists outside the gates. Brooks was a frugal photographer. He rarely took more than one picture, preferring to stand patiently until the most newsworthy image presented itself. That day, as cameras snapped and rolled around him, Brooks waited. He saw a man pick a fight with some of the pickets. "I could tell from what he said that there would be trouble soon." Fists were clenched. Clubs rose. Brooks snapped his photo: eight strikers, faces contorted; a lone dissenter, crouching low, coat over his head. The camera under his coat, Brooks ducked into the crowd. "A lot of people would have liked to wreck that picture."
59. NEWSP_080622_037.JPG: 1951: Korean War: Max Desfor packed up his 4x5 Speed Graphic, strapped on a parachute and jumped out of an airplane for the first time. It was October 1950. He was covering the Korean War for the AP. "I was attached to a military unit," Desfor said. "Whichever one I chose." Desfor chose the 187th Regiment, which parachuted deep into North Korea, hoping to liberate prisoners. The jump succeeded. The rescue didn't, but Desfor stayed with his unit. On Nov. 25, 200,000 Chinese troops swept in to help North Korea. Within weeks, the U.N. troops retreated, abandoning the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. "We could hear the explosions," Desfor said. "Correspondents... were retreating along with everybody else." At the Taedong River on Dec. 12, Desfor and his colleagues watched as hundreds of refugees crawled over the twisted metal of a turned bridge. "It was a fantastic sight. All these people clambering." Fingers numbed by cold, Desfor took only a few shots.
60. NEWSP_080622_041.JPG: 1955: Tragedy by the Sea: April 2, 1954: Los Angeles Times photographer John Gaunt lounged in his front yard in Hermosa Beach, Calif., enjoying the sun. Then a neighbor called out. "There was sone excitement on the beach," Gaunt said. "I grabbed a Rolleiflex camera and ran." Down by the water, Gaunt found a distraught young couple. Moments before, their 19-month-old son had been playing happily in their yard. Somehow, he wandered down to the beach and was swept away by the sea. The little boy was gone. There was nothing anyone could do. Gaunt, who had a daughter about the same age, took four quick photographs of the grieving couple. "As I made the last exposure, they turned and walked away," he said. Later, the boys body was recovered from the surf.
61. NEWSP_080622_054.JPG: 1957: Sinking of the Andrea Doria: The passengers were enjoying their last night at sea -- dining, dancing, playing cards -- as the luxury liner Andrea Doria sailed through fog-shrouded waters. It was 11pm, July 25, 1956. The ship, just off Nantucket, was scheduled to be in New York by morning. Out of New York cruised the Stockholm, a Swedish-American liner. Radar said it would pass safely. Something went horribly wrong. With the screech of ripping metal, the Stockholm tore a 40-foot hole in the Andrea Doria's starboard side. Water gushed in. Passengers raced about. The crew lowered lifeboats. Some 650 passengers survived the wreck; 51 were lost. The next morning, a chartered Beechcraft Bonanza circled low over the abandoned liner. Inside the plane, Boston Traveler photographer Harry Trask was violently airsick but continued shooting. "I could see the stack gradually sink below the surface. In nine minutes, it was all over."
62. NEWSP_080622_107.JPG: 1976 Spot News: Boston Fire: July 22, 1975, was a brutally hot day. But quitting time had to wait for Boston Herald American photographer Stanley Forman, who heard a report of a fire and followed screaming firetrucks to a "roaring, roaring inferno" in Boston's Back Bay. Forman spotted them in the back of the six-story apartment building: a young woman and a child on the fire escape, just feet from the firestorm, looking for help. A ladder rose toward the pair. "Everything was fine," Forman said, "I was just shooting a routine rescue. Switching lenses, switching cameras. All of the sudden, boom! It just crashes." The fire escape ripped away from the building. The woman was falling, the child was falling, metal was flying. "I'm thinking, 'Just keep shooting.' And I'm looking and shooting." Then a bell went off in his head. "I didn't want to see them hit." Forman turned away. The 19-year-old woman died. Miraculously, her 3-year-old niece survived.
63. NEWSP_080622_136.JPG: 1985 Feature: Ethiopian Famine: They snuck in with a food convoy, traveling at night, hiding all day from the Ethiopian MIGs that would have blown them up. It was 1984 when Boston Globe photographer Stan Grossfeld and reporter Colin Nickerson discovered the politics of famine in Ethiopia. The country's drought was in its fourth year. Crops and livestock were dead. People searched everywhere for food. Some 30,000 tons of it, from the United States, had been held up by an Ethiopian government determined to starve the countryside into submission. And starve the people did -- half a million Ethiopians, many of them children so hungry their bodies actually consumed themselves. "I'll never forget the sounds of kids dying of starvation," Grossfeld said. "They sound like cats wailing." He tried to be a technician. But "sometimes the viewfinder fills up with tears." At Wad Sharsfin Camp, he photographed this starving mother and child waiting in line for food. Within hours, the child was dead.
64. NEWSP_080622_169.JPG: 2000 Feature: Fleeing Kosovo: Kukes, Albania, 1999: The makeshift camp teemed with refugees. "Waves and waves coming over the border day after day," said The Washington Post's Carol Guzy, who, with colleagues Lucian Perkins and Michael Williamson, photographed the exodus of ethnic Albanians fleeing Serb fighters in Kosovo. On May 3, barbed wire separated a refugee family from Prizren. The new arrivals had to wait outside until tents were set up. "They passed the baby back and forth," Guzy said, "just to kiss him and say hello." The touching scene with 2-year-old Akim Shala showed Guzy "the innocence and the horror" of Kosovo. Williamson was in Velika Krusa, Kosovo. In a burned-out house, Qamil Duraku held pieces of his cousins, body parts the Serbs had torched. Perkins saw expectation and worry in the faces of refugees at the Cegrane camp, as more Korovar Albanians arrived from Blace.
65. NEWSP_080622_178.JPG: 1998 Spot News; Trek of Tears -- An African Journey: The line of refugees reached to the horizon, a legacy of centuries of war between Africa's Hutu and Tutsi tribes. "People would flee together as a village," said Martha Rial, yet "many children were separated from their families." In January, 1997, Rial followed the refugees in Tanzania for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The story had a personal angle for Rial. Her sister, Amy, was a nurse with the International Rescue Committee in Tanzania. Rial's pictures showed her sister caring for malnourished children; they showed a Hutu woman who had been raped by Tutsi soldiers and Tutsi woman who had adopted a Hutu child. The stream of refugees had been walking for almost 24 hours. "They were trying to flee, to go deeper into the bush." But troops forced them back to Rwanda.
66. NEWSP_080415_023.JPG: 1985 Spot News: Olympics in Los Angeles: At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, China competed in the Olympic Games for the first time since 1952. Women ran their first Olympic marathons. And three photographers from The Orange County Register -- Rick Rickman, Hal Stoelzle, and Brian Smith -- tried to outdo much bigger news organizations. "The L.A. Times had 40 credentials and we had three," Rickman said. "It was a daunting task." They couldn't compete head-to-head, so they looked for the striking shot. Said Smith, "We wanted someone to pick up the paper and see something they hadn't seen on TV the night before. We definitely did not play it safe." On Aug. 12, Hal Stoelzle was covering men's freestyle swimming. He had arrived at 5:30am to secure a spot. The finals didn't begin until late afternoon. The still-photo positions were under the bleachers, where the heat topped 100 degrees. But when teammates greeted Rowdy Gaines in front of the flag after he won the gold medal in the men's 100-meter freestyle, "I knew the wait had been worth it."
67. NEWSP_080415_027.JPG: 1986 Feature: Philadelphia's Homeless: In the winter of 1985, Philadelphia Inquirer photographer Tom Gralish stepped into the lives of the city's street people. "I didn't know much about these guys. So I decided to show what their day is like." Gralish found "a community -- enough vendors to be nice to them, enough steam grates, a liquor store nearby, a hospital, lots of commuters to panhandle -- everything they needed." Walter, one of the men Gralish photographed, lived on the sidewalk heating grate. "Walter is one of the guys who is hard to reach because he talks to himself." Still, Gralish got his pictures. "People like it when you pay attention to them. These guys had disdain for society and the rules; that's why they objected to the shelters. They saw themselves as the last free men."
68. NEWSP_080415_032.JPG: 1991 Spot News: Human Torch: Soweto, South Africa: It was not yet dawn on Sept. 15, 1990, when Greg Marinovich and Associated Press reporter Tom Cohen stumbled onto a gunfight between supporters of the African National Congress and the predominantly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party. ANC youths seized Lindsaye Tschabalala, a Zulu man. They stoned him. A man hauled out a massive, shiny Bowie knife and stabbed hard. "My heart was racing," Marinovich said. "I had difficulty taking deep enough breaths. I called out, 'Who is he? What's he done?' A voice from the crowd replied, 'He's an Inkatha spy.'" Marinovich tried to argue. He took photos mechanically. When the Zulu lay still, he looked away. Suddenly, "the man I thought dead was running across the field, his body enveloped in flames." A man swung a machete into his blazing skull as a boy fled "this vision of hell." Marinovich made it back to his car. He closed his eyes and began to beat the steering wheel with his fists. "I could finally scream."
69. NEWSP_080415_036.JPG: 1994 Feature: Waiting Game for Sudanese Child: By February 1993, South African photojournalist Kevin Carter had spent a decade documenting political strife. In the midst of gunfights, he wondered "about which millisecond I was going to die, about putting something on film they could use as my last picture." For a change, Carter covered the famine in Sudan. At a feeding station at Ayod on March 23, he saw people so weakened by hunger that they were dying at the rate of 20 an hour. In the bush, Carter heard a soft whimpering, a tiny girl trying to get to the feeding center. A vulture landed nearby. Carter waited. The vulture waited. Carter took his picture and chased the bird away. He sat under a tree and cried. The photograph ran in newspapers worldwide. Carter received outraged letters: Why didn't he pick up the child? Journalists had been told not to touch famine victims because of disease. But Carter told a friend, "I'm really, really sorry I didn't pick the child up." The controversy and personal problems overwhelmed him. On July 27, 1994, police found Kevin Carter dead, an apparent suicide. He was 33.
70. NEWSP_080415_042.JPG: 2001 Breaking News: Elian: It was dawn in Miami's Little Havana. Photographers and reporters dozed on lawn chairs. Demonstrators milled about after an all-night vigil. Inside the house, a family lawyer negotiated by phone with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. On the sofa, 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez slept. AP photographer Alan Diaz stood at the backyard fence. For five months from this spot, Diaz had covered the international custody war between the child's cousins in Miami and father in Cuba. At 5am on April 22, 2000, rumors began to swirl that a temporary accord might allow a visit with the boy's father. The rumors proved untrue. Suddenly, Diaz heard heavy boots stampeding the backyard. A family friend let him in the front door and locked it just before federal agents smashed into the house. "What's happening?" Elian asked. "What's happening?" Diaz tried to calm Elian down. One agent pointed a 9 mm submachine gun. Diaz took the picture: a terrified child being seized by the federal government.
71. NEWSP_080415_058.JPG: 1979 Feature: Blizzard Rams New England: The lighthouse was 114 feet high, so the foam must have been spraying about 100 feet into the air. It was Feb. 8, 1978. A blizzard slammed New England, shutting roads, businesses and schools. Snow buried everything. Kevin Cole, Boston Herald American chief photographer, was stuck in Plymouth, Mass. "The snow was over the house. I've never seen anything like it." Cole got to the Hyannis airport and found a pilot to take him up. The sea raged. "The whole coastline was gone, houses in the water, houses floating, waves crashed inside them." They circled the Minot Light. "We can't stay out here any longer," the pilot told Cole. "Just as he started to turn," Cole said, "I saw a huge wave. That's when I got that shot, and that's the same time I threw up." The worst New England storm in 200 years -- chronicled in a special section by the entire Herald American photo staff -- killed 54 and left thousands homeless.
72. NEWSP_080415_061.JPG: 1977 Spot News: The Soiling of Old Glory: April 6, 1976: At Boston's City Hall, 200 white students demonstrated against plans to bus children to integrate the city's schools. "Everything appeared to be over," said Boston Herald American photographer Stanley Forman. Then Theodore Landsmark, executive director of the Contractors Association of Boston, headed toward City Hall. Landsmark was black. The students were white. "Everything started to happen," Forman said. A student ran up with a flagpole. Others held Landsmark. The student struck him repeatedly. "I was making pictures... I saw him going down and rolling over. He was being hit with the flagpole. I switched lenses." Forman recorded the day an American flag, a symbol of liberty, was used as a weapon of racial hatred.
73. NEWSP_080415_065.JPG: 1977 Spot News: Brutality in Bangkok: October 1976: Thailand's third government in two years was teetering. Late one night, right-wing vocational students lynched two left-wing university students. AP photographer Neal Ulevich had covered the Vietnam War. Yet he was "very scared" the morning on Oct. 6, when paramilitary troops fired every which way at the battling students. "Tremendous volleys" flew across soccer fields and into the classrooms. "There were bodies all over... no place to take cover." When the left-wing students gave up, Ulevich headed for the gates. He saw a body hanging, a crowd so enraged "that a man was hitting the body on the head with a folding chair." Ulevich took a few frames. He walked away. No one noticed. When he won the Pulitzer, Bangkok newspapers reported the local photographer's feat on Page One. They did not print the photos.
74. NEWSP_080415_069.JPG: 1974 Feature: Burst of Joy: March 17, 1973, was overcast. No shadows. Beautiful light, thought AP photographer Sal Veder, looking down the tarmac at Travis Air Force Base. Families excitedly awaited the return of fathers, husbands, brothers -- American prisoners of war, coming home from North Vietnam. A giant C-141 taxied up and stopped. Alert, solemn men disembarked in new dress uniforms. A lot of people cried. "Some of the photographers were pretty well shaken up," Veder said, "I was, too." The last man off was Col. Robert L. Stirm of the U.S. Air Force. Six years earlier, he had been shot down over Hanoi. His family had waited since then, not knowing if they'd ever see him again. Stirm addressed the crowd: "Thank you... God bless you and God bless America." Then Veder saw it. "Motion. The family had started to run toward him, and that's what caught my eye."
75. NEWSP_080415_108.JPG: 1977 Feature: Moment of Reflection: By spring 1976, the Vietnam War was over. Yet its impact remained. Robin Hood had learned a trade in Vietnam. He went over as an Army information officer and came back as a photographer. Eddie Robinson served in Vietnam, too. But the war took something away from him: his legs. The two veterans crossed paths on May 15 at an Armed Forces Day parade. Hood walked along the sidelines, taking pictures for the Chattanooga News-Free Press. Vietnamese children caught his eye. They had been relocated to Chattanooga as war refugees and were watching the parade, waving small American flags. Then the photographer saw Robinson, in army fatigues, a rain poncho and a wheelchair. "The thought occurred to me that here was a man who made a supreme sacrifice for the freedom of those [Vietnamese] children." He released the shutter.
76. NEWSP_080415_112.JPG: 1969 Spot News: Viet Cong Execution: Jan. 30, 1968: North Vietnam's Tet Offensive brought fighting into the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. Thirty-six hours later, AP photographer Eddie Adams and an NBC crew came upon two South Vietnamese soldiers and a prisoner. "And out of nowhere came this guy who we didn't know," Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of Vietnam's national police, walked up and shot the prisoner in the head. His reason: The prisoner, a Viet Cong lieutenant, had just murdered a South Vietnamese colonel, his wife and their six children. The peace movement adopted the photo as a symbol of war's brutality. But Adams, who stayed in touch with Loan, said the photo wrongly stereotyped the man: "If you're this general and you just caught this guy after he killed some of your people... how do you know you wouldn't have pulled that trigger yourself? You have to put yourself in that situation. ... It's a war."
77. NEWSP_080415_115.JPG: 1969 Feature: Deep Sorrow: Moneta Sleet was there in 1955 when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. organized the Montgomery bus boycott. He was there in 1964 when King won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was there in 1965 when King led the march from Selma to Montgomery. And he was there on April 9, 1968, when King was mourned at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, five days after a sniper's bullet felled the civil rights leader. Coretta Scott King discovered that the press pool covering her husband's funeral included no black photographers. She sent word that if Moneta Sleet wasn't allowed in the church, there would be photographers, period. Sleet took a prime position. "I was photographing the child as she was fidgeting on her mama's lap. Professionally I was doing what I had been trained to do, and I was glad of that because I was very involved emotionally. If I hadn't been there working, I would have been off crying like everybody else."
78. NEWSP_080415_118.JPG: 1968 Spot News: The Kiss of Life: July 17, 1967: Air conditioners hummed all over Florida. In Jacksonville, they knocked out the electrical system. Jacksonville Journal photographer Rocco Morabito was on his way to cover a railroad strike when he saw Electric Authority linemen up on the poles. Morabito grabbed eight pictures at the strike and hustled back to do the power outage story. "I heard screaming. I looked up and I saw this man hanging down. Oh my God, I don't know what to do." The lineman, Randall Champion, was dangling by his safety belt, felled by 4,160 volts of electricity. "I took the picture right quick." Morabito saw lineman J.D. Thompson run to the pole. "I went to my car and called an ambulance. I got back to the pole and J.D. was up there breathing into Champion." Morabito made pictures -- and prayed. Thompson shouted, "He's breathing!" Champion survived.
79. NEWSP_080415_127.JPG: 1964: Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald: Friday, Nov. 22, 1963: Dallas Times Herald photographer Robert Jackson rode in President John F. Kennedy's Dallas motorcade. Crowds cheered. Flags flew. Jackson stopped snapping photographs to change film. That instant the world changed. Shots. Bedlam. Jackson saw a rifle in the Texas School Book Depository window. He had no film in his camera. Within minutes, the president was dead. On Sunday, Jackson showed up at Dallas police headquarters to cover assassination suspect Lee Harvey Oswald's transfer to the county jail. "I walked right in. There was no security." Jackson picked his spot in the garage, pre-focusing. "They said, 'Here he comes,' and they brought him out." Someone stepped in front of Jackson. "My first reaction was, 'This guy's getting in my way.'" Nightclub owner Jack Ruby took two steps and fired. "I guess I fired about the same time."
80. NEWSP_080415_136.JPG: 1961: Assassination of Asanuma: Election time in Japan meant debate. On Oct. 12, 1960, 3,000 people crammed Tokyo's Hibiya Hall to hear Socialist Party Chairman Ineijiro Asanuma battle it out with Liberal-Democratic Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda. Journalists crowded the stage. Among them: Yasushi Nagao, Mainchi Shimbun photographer. The socialist ripped the government for its defense treaty with the United States. Right-wing students heckled him. The police tried to quell the protest. The press flocked to the hecklers. Nagao had only one shot left in his camera. He stayed close to the stage. Student Otoya Yamaguchi rushed out. "I thought Yamaguchi was carrying a brown stick to strike Asanuma," Nagao remembered. The photographer suddenly realized it was a samurai sword. The student stabbed the party chairman. He staggered. The student pulled out the blade. Nagao lifted his camera. His last frame captured Yamaguchi spearing Asanuma again -- this time through the heart.
81. NEWSP_080415_141.JPG: 1949: Babe Ruth Retires No. 3: Yankee Stadium, June 13, 1948: The fans came out to honor one of the greats, baseball's beloved Babe Ruth. On the field, New York Herald Tribune photographer Nat Fein had a close-up view of the home run hero, slumped in the dugout, weakened by illness. "He looked tired, very tired. The power... was slowly ebbing away." Still, Ruth's slow walk onto the field drove the crowd wild. They gave "The Sultan of Swat" a thunderous standing ovation. Fein took a few pictures but wasn't satisfied. He walked around to the other side. "I saw Ruth standing there with his uniform, No. 3, the number that would be retired, and knew that was the shot." The thick shock of hair, the number, the fans -- Fein's photograph tells the whole story of the Babe's bittersweet finale.
82. NEWSP_080415_146.JPG: 1945: Old Glory Goes Up on Mount Suribachi: Feb. 23, 1945: It had been four days since the AP's Joe Rosenthal landed on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. The hail of Japanese fire had not let up. During one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, U.S. Marines captured Mount Suribachi, a volcanic peak on the southern tip of the island. Jubilant, they raised a flag. Rosenthal trudged up the mountain. He learned that the Marines planned to substitute a larger flag that could be seen all over the island. "I thought of trying to get a shot of the two flags... but I couldn't line it up. I decided to get just the one flag going up." Marines milled about. Suddenly, "out of the corner of my eye... [I saw] the men start the flag up." He swung his bulky Speed Graphic and captured the most enduring image of the war. The battle for Iwo Jima raged 31 more days. The toll: 6,821 American troops killed, including three of the Marines in Rosenthal's photo.
83. NEWSP_080415_151.JPG: 1947: Atlanta Hotel Fire It was Friday night. Arnold Hardy, college student, was out having a good time. He arrived home to hear firetrucks in the street. Hardy grabbed his camera and a taxi. "I came upon it all at once. Fire was raging [and] from almost every window, men, women and children screamed for help." The Winecoff Hotel had no fire escapes, no fire doors, no fire stairs. Atlanta Fire Department ladders did not reach the top floors. Trapped guests descending ropes of blankets and bedsheets. The sheets tore. People plunged to the pavement. Hardy heard a woman shriek. "I looked up, raising my camera," he said. "A woman was plummeting downward. As she passed the third floor, I fired, using my last flashbulb." The woman's fall was broken by a piece of pipe and a railing. She lived. In all, 119 people died in the Dec. 7, 1946, Winecoff fire -- including owner W.F. Winecoff, found dead with his wife in their 14th floor luxury suite.
84. NEWSP_080415_169.JPG: 2007 Breaking News: Defending the Barricade: On Feb. 1, 2006, Associated Press photographer Oded Balilty was on the scene in the West bank settlement of Amona when a violent confrontation broke out between Jewish settlers and Israeli security forces. The troops were attempting to enforce a government order to tear down nine houses built on private Palestinian land after Israel's Supreme Court rejected a final appeal by the settlers. The demolition was part of acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's efforts to clear out illegal settlements in the West Bank. Balilty, camera ready, stood about 3 meters from the end of the barricade. Crowds lined up on a wall overlooking the holed-up settlers, while Israeli troops in riot gear advanced. Balilty said, "Nili, a young settler... was standing 15 meters away, biting her fingernails, when she saw them coming and ran toward the barricade." Nili said, "I felt a stranger pushing me to defend the barricade. It was God who gave me the courage." Moments after Balilty took the photograph that won him the Pulitzer Prize, Nili was beaten by club-wielding police.
85. NEWSP_080411_013.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2008_DC_Newseum_Pulitzer DC -- Newseum -- Exhibits -- (1) Pulitzer Prize Photographs (53 photos from 2008)
  2007 Feature: A Mother's Journey: Cyndie French was a single mother of five whose 10-year-old son, Derek, had cancer. It was diagnosed about six months before she met Sacramento Bee photographer Renee Byer at a Race for the Cure event in May 2005. Cyndie invited Byer to photograph her daily struggle of caring for Derek. She wanted to share their story to let others know what it's like to live with cancer and to raise awareness that there are families who need financial support. Over the next year, Byer, along with reporter Cynthia Hubert, spent countless hours with Derek and Cyndie, chronicling painful doctor visits and surgeries, and Derek's rebellion against his mother and new treatments. There are images of intimate moments as Cyndie lovingly tries to comfort and entertain Derek, while wondering how she would meet the mountain of unpaid bills and how her other children were being affected. Byer said, "There were times when her story felt like a gut punch in my stomach." In the end, Cyndie lost the battle. Derek was buried on May 19, 2006. He was 11.
86. NEWSP_080411_018.JPG: 1962: Two Men With a Problem: The Bay of Pigs invasion had failed. In the spring of 1961, President John F. Kennedy was in trouble. Cuba's Fidel Castro and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev pressed the advantage. Americans questioned their young president's ability to lead. The weight of the world on his shoulders, Kennedy retreated to Camp David on April 22 to talk with his predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower. The two posed for photos. The AP's Paul Vathis took the requisite shots, all the while wishing for a genuine, unguarded moment. "I heard Ike tell Kennedy, 'I know a place where we can talk.'" They walked away. The journalists were leaving. Vathis knelt to pack his camera. He glanced up. "There were just two of them, all by themselves, their heads bowed, walking up the path. They looked so lonely." Vathis got off two quick shots, right between the legs of a surprised Secret Service agent. Press secretary Pierre Salinger was angry. Said Vathis; "I'm just changing my film."
87. NEWSP_080411_023.JPG: 1967: James Meredith Shot: James Meredith, the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, was walking the length of his racially divided state to encourage black Americans to vote. On day two, June 6, 1966, a few supporters joined him. Journalists leapfrogged ahead in cars. The AP's Jack Thornell and two other photographers were parked by the side of the road. A voice called out: "James. I just want James Meredith." A white man stood, leveling a 16-gauge shotgun. Thornell jumped from the car. Meredith already was down. "We were in the line of fire. We were trying to protect our heads. We weren't taking a lot of photographs." One picture was enough. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael took up the cause. Meredith recovered and rejoined the civil rights march, walking this time with 18,000.
88. NEWSP_080411_032.JPG: 1971 Spot News: Kent State Massacre: In the spring of 1970, student activists demonstrated on campuses across America. When President Richard Nixon announced on April 30 that U.S. troops were moving into Cambodia, students at Ohio's Kent State University reacted with a destructive beer bash in downtown Kent. Twenty-four hours later, as nearly 800 students watched, the campus ROTC building was burned to the ground. On Monday, May 4, photojournalism student John Filo returned after a weekend away to find 500 National Guard troops on campus. He grabbed his camera and headed for a student demonstration. There, National Guardsmen ordered protesters to disperse. Students threw rocks and shouted, "Pigs off campus!" The guardsmen fired teargas canisters. Students threw more rocks. The guardsmen retreated, but then suddenly turned, knelt, aimed and fired. Filo thought they were shooting blanks. They weren't. A boy lay in a puddle of blood. "A girl came up and knelt over the body and let out a God-awful scream. That made me click the camera." Four students died. Eight guardsmen were indicted. No one was convicted.
89. NEWSP_080411_037.JPG: 1973 Spot News: Vietnam -- Terror of War: A thick gel fell from the sky, sticking to everything it hit -- thatched roofs, bare skin -- then burning, burning. Napalm. Everyone in Vietnam saw it. But not like young AP photographer Nick Ut. On June 8, 1972, he covered a battle near Trang Bang, west of Saigon. "Really heavy fighting," he said. Trying to disentrench the Viet Cong, the South Vietnamese dropped napalm. But one plane missed. Fire rained down on civilians. Women and children ran screaming. Ut snapped pictures. A little girl ran toward him, arms outstretched, eyes shut in pain, clothes burned off by napalm. "She said, 'Too hot, please help me!'" Ut took her to the hospital. The napalm girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, survived, grew up, got married. Ut, who lost his older brother to the war, never lost touch with her.
90. NEWSP_080411_049.JPG: 1975 Spot News: Lull in the Battle: His grandfather fought fires and died in the line of duty. As a boy, Gerald Gay wanted to be a firefighter, too. So when the Seattle photographer got a call to a fire on the morning of Oct. 11, 1974, he was ready to follow the photographers' adage "The best pictures come when your mind and heart are there." A house had burned down. Tired firefighters mopped up. Gay walked up as four of them took a break. "As I crouched and watched them, they just went back to what they were doing. All I really thought at the moment is, 'These are the firemen who fought the fire.' The background is wonderful. There's burned brush and smoke and an overturned wheelbarrow. And dejected people ... There was one frame where the firemen turned. Each had a certain expression, which is what made the picture."
91. NEWSP_080411_071.JPG: 1980 Spot News: Justice and Cleansing in Iran: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution had steamrolled over Iran. Khomeini imposed his Shiite Muslim beliefs and destroyed "corrupt Western influences." The country's 4 million Sunni Muslim Kurds rejected him. Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards slaughtered scores, dispensing "justice" in mock trials. On Aug. 27, 1979, nine Kurdish rebels and two former police officers of the deposed Shah of Iran were executed in Sanandaj. A photographer from Ettela'at, an Iranian newspaper, was there. To protect the photographer's life, his photo ran without credit in Ettela'at. A UPI staffer in Iran acquired the picture from the paper, and it was transmitted worldwide. Explained the UPI staffer: "Those in the bureau often sat gazing at the picture, and contemplated the numbing transition from life to death that it depicts." The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to "an unarmed photographer," which is how it stayed until 2006, when The Wall Street Journal conclusively identified the photographer as Jahangir Razmi, who now runs a photo studio in Tehran. "There's no more reason to hide," Razmi told The Journal.
92. NEWSP_080411_079.JPG: 1982 Feature: Life In Chicago: For more than 30 years, John White photographed Chicago. "I live in the city, I breathe the city, the city is everything." At the Chicago Sun-Times, White covered his share of fires, murders and politics. But what he loved were uplifting pictures: dancers rehearsing at a new high school or children running joyfully through Carbini Green, Chicago's most notorious housing project. "I don't really take pictures," he said. "I capture and share life. Moments come when pictures take themselves." White's prize-winning 1981 portfolio reflected a year in the life of the city. "The purpose was to share slices of life from all walks of life; to be the psalm of the life of people." Most people, he noted, got a steady diet of hard news. These photos gave "the benefit of the joy and peace that life has also."
93. NEWSP_080411_090.JPG: 1996 Spot News: Oklahoma City Bombing: Charles Porter was working in the Liberty Bank loan department when "there was just a huge, huge explosion... a loud boom, like a sonic boom. The whole building shook." An aspiring photojournalist, Porter got his camera and ran toward the blast. "There is glass all over... people lying on the ground. A guy walks by without his shirt, and blood is streaming from his head." It was April 19, 1995. Porter had just arrived at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. "It's like they shaved off the front of the building and then they took an ice cream scoop and scooped right down the center." Porter took pictures, saw a blur, turned to his left. "It's a policeman carrying something. I snap the frame just as the policeman hands it to a fireman. The fireman turns, and he's holding this infant. I take one shot." The explosion killed 168 people, including the 1-year-old Baylee Almon, the child in Porter's picture.
94. NEWSP_080411_098.JPG: 1993 Spot News: Olympics in Barcelona: In July 1992, 600 photojournalists went to Barcelona, Spain, for the Summer Olympics. Some organizations fielded dozens of photographers. The Dallas Morning News sent William Snyder and Ken Geiger. Geiger called the Olympics "one of the hardest things I've ever had to do... a marathon for a journalist." Snyder agreed: "Our goal was to be the lead photo on Page One every day." They divvied up the events. Snyder got basketball and diving. "We went out there with the idea that not only would we get the moments, but we would also try to shoot things differently." Geiger drew track and field. He had just shot the U.S. women's team winning the 100-meter relay on July 8 when he noticed the Nigerian women watching the scoreboard. When they learned they had won a bronze medal, "they broke into celebration," said Geiger. "I had to change cameras to the one with a shorter lens. Then I took the photo."
95. NEWSP_080411_103.JPG: 1995 Spot News: Crisis in Haiti: Carol Guzy had covered Haiti since the early 1980s, returning on her own when an editor wouldn't send her. "I felt like I had to make people see what was going on there," she said. "Some say I became obsessed, but I'd rather call it a mission." Jean-Bertrand Aristide had won Haiti's first free presidential elections in December 1990. Then he was deposed. The United States imposed a trade embargo. "Even I had lost all hope," Guzy said. "The military government was entrenched." But in September 1994, U.S. troops landed in Haiti to help return Aristide to power. "I saw hope and even jubilation in people's eyes." In Port-au-Prince on Sept. 29, Guzy photographed a "very joyous democracy march." Then someone threw a grenade. "I hit the ground with everybody else." The crowd thought the man who was sitting down had thrown the grenade. "They were trying to tear him apart. The U.S. troops were trying to protect him."
96. NEWSP_080411_116.JPG: 2000 Breaking News: Columbine: Littleton, Colo., was quiet. Little out of the ordinary ever happened in the Denver suburb -- until April 20, 1999. George Kochaniec Jr. knew something was happening the moment he walking into the Rocky Mountain News office in Denver. It was a shooting at Littleton's Columbine High School, and everyone was moving fast. The photographer arrived at "a scene that was surreal... kids bleeding... TV reporters crying... scary. It will never go away." He set up his long lens. He saw student Jessica Holliday screaming skyward, asking "Why, why?" He saw anguished students embrace. Above the scene in a helicopter, News photographer Rodollo Gonzales photographed a wounded boy on the ground, not knowing he was dead. Weeks later, he took a picture of a line of crosses atop a hill in nearby Clement Park, a magnet for the thousands who mourned. The 20-member Rocky Mountain News photo staff won the Pulitzer Prize for documenting the day that two Columbine High School students massacred 12 classmates and a teacher, turning their quiet community into the scene of the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
97. NEWSP_080411_125.JPG: 2002 Breaking News: World Trade Center Attack: Sept 11, 2001, dawned clear, a great day for a morning walk. As artist and freelance photographer Steve Ludlum was strolling along the Brooklyn waterfront, he saw smoke pouring from the North Tower of the World Trade center. Ludlum, now sprinting, ran home for his camera. He asked a friend to drive him to Manhattan Bridge, where he found a good view of the World trade Center. Ludlum rested his zoom lens between a fence's iron railings. He adjusted his camera, unaware that United Flight 175 was headed straight toward the South Tower. A ball of flame appeared in the viewfinder. "Bomb," he thought, releasing the shutter. His regular photo lab was unreachable. He spent 90 anxious minutes at a one-hour drugstore service, knowing "an artist has one shot at greatness and this was mine." He opened the envelope and exhaled. The negative was sharp. His next stop: The New York Times.
98. NEWSP_080411_158.JPG: 1958: Faith and Confidence: Sept. 10, 1957, was a sleepy, Indian-summer day. Not a bad time to be out photographing the Chinese Merchants Association parade in the nation's capital. That's what William Beall was doing for the Washington Daily News. There was plenty to shoot. People lined the sidewalk. Chinese dancers and paper dragons roamed the streets. Firecrackers popped and sizzled. Out of the corner of his eye, Beall saw a small boy step into the street. In front of the child was a dancing Chinese dragon -- and a tall young policeman. The policeman intercepted the boy, cautioning him back from the passing parade. Said Beall: "I suddenly saw the picture, turned and clicked." The photographer fired off one shot, freezing forever a look of childhood innocence.
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