by David Walker
©The Denver Post/Craig F. Walker
Craig F. Walker of
The Denver Post and Mary Chind of
The
Des Moines Register have been named the winners of the 2010
Pulitzer Prizes for photography. The Pulitzer winners were
announced today at Columbia University.
Walker won the Feature Photography prize for his two-year
documentary project about a Denver teenager who joined the army at
the height of the insurgent violence in Iraq. The intent was to
show readers the experience of an average soldier from enlistment
to deployment to homecoming. “As the story unfolded, it became more
and more interesting,” Walker told PDN last fall. “It wasn’t just
about becoming a soldier. It was about growing up.”
The Denver
Post published the story last September. (The project was
featured in PDN's print edition in January).
Chind won the Breaking News Photography prize for an image of a
construction worker dangling from a makeshift harness as he reaches
out to save a woman trapped in swirling water beneath a dam. The
image was published by
The Des Moines Register on July 1,
2009.
Both photographers will be awarded $10,000.
Other finalists for the Feature Photography prize included
freelance photographer Mary Calvert, for a story published by
The Washington Times about how rape has become a weapon of
war in the Congo; and Robert Cohen of the
St. Louis
Post-Dispatch for his portrayal of homeless suburban
families.
Runners-up for the Breaking News Photography prize were the staff
of the Associated Press for their coverage of the war in
Afghanistan, and the staff of the
New York Daily News for
their coverage of the emergency landing of a US Airways jetliner in
the Hudson River.
Denver Post, Des Moines Register Win Photo Pulitzers
April 12, 2010
by David Walker
Craig F. Walker of
The Denver Post and Mary Chind of
The Des Moines Register have been named the winners of the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes for photography. The Pulitzer winners were announced today at Columbia University.
Walker won the Feature Photography prize for his two-year documentary project about a Denver teenager who joined the army at the height of the insurgent violence in Iraq. The intent was to show readers the experience of an average soldier from enlistment to deployment to homecoming. “As the story unfolded, it became more and more interesting,” Walker told PDN last fall. “It wasn’t just about becoming a soldier. It was about growing up.”
The Denver Post published the story last September. (The project was
featured in PDN's print edition in January).
Chind won the Breaking News Photography prize for an image of a construction worker dangling from a makeshift harness as he reaches out to save a woman trapped in swirling water beneath a dam. The image was published by
The Des Moines Register on July 1, 2009.
Both photographers will be awarded $10,000.
Other finalists for the Feature Photography prize included freelance photographer Mary Calvert, for a story published by
The Washington Times about how rape has become a weapon of war in the Congo; and Robert Cohen of the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch for his portrayal of homeless suburban families.
Runners-up for the Breaking News Photography prize were the staff of the Associated Press for their coverage of the war in Afghanistan, and the staff of the
New York Daily News for their coverage of the emergency landing of a US Airways jetliner in the Hudson River.
