The Pulitzer Prize in news journalism awards the original, intriguing, exceptional information/news in newspapers. However, news is not just all text. Sometime news are presented as photography that has a narrative and portrays emotion. One of the category for Pulitzer prize is Feature Photography, that honors and recognizes a photograph or series photographs that captivate our emotions and presents story that can only be acknowledged  by looking at them. Here we share some of the most powerful Pulitzer prize winner photography.

“ The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography has been awarded since 1968 for a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album.”(source)

The skills of these photographers to capture the human emotions at the right moment is just absolutely brilliant and left us in a awe. If the images are part on album we have linked to the album.

Warning: Some of the these images are very powerful, graphic and emotional. Maybe not be suitable for the weak hearts.

1995: Staff of Associated Press

For its portfolio of photographs chronicling the horror and devastation in Rwanda.

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1996:  Stephanie Welsh, Newhouse News Service

For capturing shocking sequence of photos of a female circumcision rite in Kenya.

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1997: Alexander Zemlianichenko Associated Press

For For capturing a photograph of Russian President Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock concert during his campaign for re-election. (Moved by the Board from the Spot News Photography category.)

1998: Clarence Williams, Los Angeles Times

For documenting powerful images the plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs.

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1999: Associated Press Photo Staff

For striking collection of photographs of the key players and events stemming from President Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and the ensuing impeachment hearings.

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2000: Carol Guzy, Michael Williamson and Lucian Perkins Washington Post

For intimate and poignant images depicting the plight of the Kosovo refugees.

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2001: Matt Rainey, Star-Ledger (New Jersey)

For emotional photographs that illustrate the care and recovery of two students critically burned in a dormitory fire at Seton Hall University.

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2002: The New York Times staff

For photographs of chronicling the pain and the perseverance of people enduring protracted conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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2003: Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times

For memorable portrayal of how undocumented Central American youths, often facing deadly danger, travel north to the United States.

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2004: Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times

For cohesive, behind-the-scenes look at the effects of civil war in Liberia, with special attention to innocent citizens caught in the conflict.

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2005: Deanne Fitzmaurice, San Francisco Chronicle

For sensitive photo essay on an Oakland hospital’s effort to mend an Iraqi boy nearly killed by an explosion.

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2006: Todd Heisler, Rocky Mountain News

For haunting, behind-the-scenes look at funerals for Colorado Marines who return from Iraq in caskets.

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2007: Renée C. Byer, The Sacramento Bee

For intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle with cancer.

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2008: Preston Gannaway , The Concord Monitor

For intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness.

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2009: Damon Winter , The New York Times

For memorable array of pictures deftly capturing multiple facets of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

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2010: Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post

For intimate portrait of a teenager who joins the Army at the height of insurgent violence in Iraq, poignantly searching for meaning and manhood.

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So, what are your thoughts? Did you like these images? Any emotional responses?