2016 Pulitzer Prize winners for photography
Reuters and The New York Times shared the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for the devastating migrant crisis in Europe and the Middle East while Boston Globe photographer Jessica Rinaldi won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for her raw and revealing photo essay on a boy striving to find his footing after abuse and neglect, April 18, 2016.
The Pulitzer Prize is the highest award in newspaper and online journalism awarded each year in twenty-one categories.
Here's a look at a selection of the winning images.
Photographers Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks Mauricio Lima and Daniel Etter from The New York Times were co-winners with Reuters staff for their coverage of the migrant crisis.
Migrants arrive by a Turkish boat near the village of Skala, on the Greek island of Lesbos. The Turkish boat owner delivered some 150 people to the Greek coast and tried to escape back to Turkey; he was arrested in Turkish waters.
Migrant Crisis - The New York Times
Europe's biggest migrant crisis since World War II drew the attention of the world.
Ahmad Majid, in blue T-shirt at center, sleeps on a bus floor with his children, his brother Farid Majid, in green sweater at right, and other members of their family and dozens of other refugees, after leaving Budapest on the way to Vienna.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees, mostly from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, fled their homes, risking their lives in dangerous boat trips, illegal border crossings and long bus and train journeys, seeking asylum in Western Europe and Scandinavia, September 5, 2015.
Mauricio Lima - The New York Times
Migrant Crisis - The New York Times
A man tries to shield his child from police beatings and tear gas at the border crossing in Horgos, Serbia.
Baton-wielding Hungarian riot police unleashed tear gas and water cannons against hundreds of migrants after they broke through a razor-wire fence and tried to surge into Hungary from Serbia, September 16, 2015.
Sergey Ponomarev - The New York Times
Migrant Crisis - The New York Times
Refugees wait in line for documents at a processing center in Presevo, Serbia.
Long lines of people stood in the blistering sun, begging guards to let them into the reception center. Refugees had to register to travel farther through Serbia. In Serbia, refugees could register to stay in the country for 72 hours, gaining the right to travel and even to stay in a hotel, August 27, 2015.
Sergey Ponomarev - The New York Times
Migrant Crisis - The New York Times
Dozens of refugee families, mostly from Syria, camping underneath the Keleti train station in central Budapest, September 1, 2015.
Mauricio Lima - The New York Times
Migrant Crisis - The New York Times
Refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Morocco, Algeria and Somalia struggling for donations of water, blankets, diapers and some clothes on their 10th day encamped near the border in Idomeni, Greece, November 28, 2015.
They were not allowed to cross into Macedonia; only refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria were allowed to cross and continue their journeys.
Mauricio Lima - The New York Times
Migrant Crisis - The New York Times
Members of the Majid family sleep with their children in their arms in a wheat field as they wait to cross the barbed wire fence at Horgos, Serbia, into Hungary, August 31, 2015.
Mauricio Lima - The New York Times
Migrant Crisis - The New York Times
Refugees line up to be registered in a reception camp, in Gevgelija, Macedonia, so they can take a train to Belgrade, Serbia, and continue their journey through the Balkans toward Europe, November 21, 2015.
Mauricio Lima - The New York Times
Migrant Crisis - The New York Times
After battling rough seas and high winds from Turkey, migrants arrive by rubber raft on a jagged shoreline of the Greek island of Lesbos. Fearing capsize or puncture, some panicked and jumped into the cold water in desperation to reach land.
This young boy made it, unlike hundreds of others, October 1, 2015
Tyler Hicks - The New York Times
Migrant Crisis - The New York Times
The body of a refugee who attempted to cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey, in the background, on the Greek island of Lesbos. Three other bodies, of a 12-year-old girl, a middle-age man and an elderly man, were also found that morning. November 1, 2015.
Mauricio Lima - The New York Times
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
Jessica Rinaldi of The Boston Globe was the recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for her photo story about Strider, a young boy who suffered abuse by those he trusted.
Here's a selection of images from the series.
On the first morning, Strider plays in the backyard of his new home, an old rectory in Lisbon, Maine. The yard was fenced and tucked into a neighborhood, so different from the woods he called home.
Jessica Rinaldi
After two years of not paying the rent the Grant's landlord gave them 30 days to pack their things and leave. On the night of the eviction Strider's grandparents, Lanette and Larry, move their possessions into a storage space leaving Strider and Gallagher unattended in the back of the car.
Tired and acting out, Gallagher bites Strider who recoils, pressing his body against the car window, November 8, 2015.
Jessica Rinaldi
On the night of the eviction, Lanette and her son's fiancée Ashly take a break from packing up the family's belongings.
As the night goes on it becomes clear that they are not going to be able to take all of their possessions with them, November 8, 2015.
Jessica Rinaldi
Strider pulls his pajamas over his head as he changes in his grandparents' bedroom inside the cramped camper, November 9, 2015.
With nowhere else to go, the Grants told the boys they were going camping and the family of four squeezed into the 24-foot camper with their cat and two dogs.
Jessica Rinaldi
Lanette and Strider share a carefree moment as the afternoon sun breaks through the trees, November 8, 2015.
Lanette often laments that she and Larry aren't able to be grandparents to Strider and Gallagher because they have to play the role of Mom and Dad, enforcing rules and making sure they are provided for.
Jessica Rinaldi
Having moved into their fourth campground of the summer, Gallagher sits in the center of a circle that his brother, Strider, has etched around him in the dirt, , November 9, 2015.
According to the state, living in a campground means they no longer have a house payment, because of this, their food stamps have been cut by a hundred dollars.
Jessica Rinaldi
During this unsettling time for the family, Strider wanders into his old bedroom and looks around at many of his belongings that will not make the next move and will be left behind, November 8, 2015.
Jessica Rinaldi
After months of searching for a new place to live, the Grants finally find a home they can afford on Craigslist in Lisbon, Maine.
Anna Cunningham arrives to the family's new home with a donation of beds for the boys. Lanette grabs her and pulls her in for a grateful hug, November 9, 2015.
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
The full set of winning images from Reuters' entry.
An overcrowded inflatable boat with Syrian refugees drifts in the Aegean sea between Turkey and Greece after its motor broke down off the Greek island of Kos, August 11, 2015.
Yannis Behrakis - REUTERS
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
A Syrian refugee holding a baby in a life tube swims towards the shore after their dinghy deflated some 100m away before reaching the Greek island of Lesbos, September 13, 2015.
Alkis Konstantinidis - REUTERS
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
The body of an unidentified migrant is seen on a beach after being washed ashore, on the Greek island of Lesbos, November 7, 2015.
Alkis Konstantinidis - REUTERS
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
An Afghan migrant jumps off an overcrowded raft onto a beach at the Greek island of Lesbos, October 19, 2015.
Yannis Behrakis - REUTERS
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
A Syrian refugee holds onto his children as he struggles to walk off a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Lesbos, September 24, 2015.
Yannis Behrakis - REUTERS
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
Amoun, 70, a blind Palestinian refugee who lived in the town of Aleppo in Syria, rests on a beach moments after arriving along with another forty on a dinghy in the Greek island of Kos, crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece, August 12, 2015.
Yannis Behrakis - REUTERS
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
An Afghan migrant is seen inside a bus following his arrival by the Eleftherios Venizelos passenger ferry with over 2,500 migrants and refugees from the island of Lesbos at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece, October 8, 2015.
Yannis Behrakis - REUTERS
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
Migrants make their way on foot on the outskirts of Brezice, Slovenia October 20, 2015.
Srdjan Zivulovic - REUTERS
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
A Syrian refugee tries to catch his breath as he stands in a crowded line to get registered in the national stadium of the Greek island of Kos, August 12, 2015.
Alkis Konstantinidis - REUTERS
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
Syrian migrants cross under a fence as they enter Hungary at the border with Serbia, near Roszke, August 27, 2015.
Bernadett Szabo - REUTERS
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
A Macedonian police officer raises his baton towards migrants to stop them from entering into Macedonia at Greece's border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, August 22, 2015.
Alexandros Avramidis - REUTERS
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
Migrants and refugees beg Macedonian policemen to allow passage to cross the border from Greece into Macedonia during a rainstorm, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015.
Yannis Behrakis - REUTERS
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
A policeman tries to stop a migrant from boarding a train through a window at Gevgelija train station in Macedonia, close to the border with Greece, August 15, 2015.
Stoyan Nenov - REUTERS
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
Hungarian policemen stand over a family of immigrants who threw themselves onto the track before they were detained at a railway station in the town of Bicske, Hungary, September 3, 2015.
Laszlo Balogh - REUTERS
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
Syrian refugees walk through the mud as they cross the border from Greece into Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015.
Yannis Behrakis - REUTERS
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
Immigrants are escorted by German police to a registration center, after crossing the Austrian-German border in Wegscheid near Passau, Germany, October 20, 2015.
Migrant Crisis - Reuters
Syrian refugee kisses his daughter as he walks through a rainstorm towards Greece's border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015.
Yannis Behrakis - REUTERS