Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times has been awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for her story on victims of gang violence.

As part of this honor, Davidson was awarded a $10,000 cash prize. Carolyn Cole, also from the Times, was named a finalist for images of the...

Getty Images photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee Chris Hondros was killed by a rocket while covering the forefront of Libyan rebel combat this past April. He was 41 years old.

Throughout his career, Hondros was often entrenched in the center of international conflicts, working at sites in...

The Associated Press has released a new book, "Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace and Everything Else," which looks at the past 160 years of national and international news. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters and illustrated with unforgettable photos, the book gives behind-the-scenes accounts of recent history.

The book presents well-known news events as seen through the eyes of the journalists who were on the ground, covering topics such as World War I, aviation, civil rights and sports. The book also includes a foreword by the late David Halberstam. An exhibit highlighting photographs and text from the book will visit major cities...

Two Pulitzer Prizes for photography have been awarded this year. The staff of the Dallas Morning News won the award for Breaking News Photography, for its coverage of the chaos that resulted from Hurricane Katrina's rampage across the Gulf states.

In the Feature Photography category, Todd Heisler of Denver's Rocky Mountain News won the prize for his behind-the-scenes look at funerals for Colorado Marines who had returned from Iraq. Heisler previously was recognized by the Pulitzer board in...

San Francisco Chronicle photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice has been awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for her photo essay portraying doctors' efforts to heal a maimed 9-year-old Iraqi boy.

Fitzmaurice earned a BFA in photography from the San Francisco Academy of Art's University Academy, where she became a guest lecturer after her graduation. Her prize-winning photographs can be viewed at pulitzer.org.

This is an issue I’ve been looking forward to since last summer. While on a nature photography road trip from Seattle to Grand Teton National Park, I stumbled on a photo gallery in Jackson Hole, Wyo. It was a Sunday night, so the gallery was closed, but I was transfixed by the photos displayed inside. I was heading back on the road early the next morning, so would not have a chance to enter the gallery, but I grabbed a courtesy catalog from a dispenser outside the door.

Continuing on my trip, the memory of those photos stayed with me. As I looked over the catalog along the way, I knew we had to share those photos—and this photographer—with our readers. One of the highlights of this issue on nature and wildlife photography has been getting to view more...

Journalists, like all humans, always have a choice. Judging from his letter in the Winter 2000 issue of PhotoMedia regarding the Columbine incident, Denver photojournalist Barry Staver, invoking personal reasons, deserted his profession. Instead of taking advantage of his privileged involvement with the story and approaching it in what could have been an original and poignant account, he chose to stand back and blame colleagues. It's particularly unfortunate that he chose to criticize those that photographically covered the story...