This year's Pulitzer Prize-winning photographic works included a series documenting the coming-of-age of a Denver teenager who enlisted in the Iraq War during the height of the insurgency.

Craig F. Walker, a photographer for The Denver Post, won the Feature Photography prize for a series telling the story of a young soldier's life from enlistment to homecoming. Walker began the project in 2007.Other finalists for this year's prizes can be seen at pulitzer.org.