Breaking News Photography

Winners: Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti of The Washington PostThe judges remarked that the photos by Guzy, Kahn and Carioti were an “up-close portrait of grief and desperation” following the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti in January 2010. “They are three exemplary photojournalists whose compassion comes through in their work,” Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli said. It was the fourth Pulitzer for Guzy, who has been covering Haiti since long before the earthquake.

A baby named Reggie Claude is rescued from the rubble of his home.

A couple hold hands and walk amid the wreckage of Haiti’s wounded landscape.

The battered and bandaged face of a child is representative of the severity of the wounds seen at General Hospital in Port-au-Prince.

Desperate Haitian survivors take goods from stores in the market area of Port-au-Prince as chaos erupts in the streets.

Cindy Tersme throws herself amid the rubble of Ecole St. Gerard, screaming in anguish as she searches for her brother Jean Gaelle Dersmorne, 14.

Feature Photography

Winner: Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times The judges recognized Davidson for a series of black-and-white photographs depicting “the intimate story of innocent victims trapped in the crossfire of the Los Angeles gang violence.” Davidson, a staff photographer at the Times since 2007, spent two years attending funerals and visiting victims in their hospital beds to document the ways in which victims of violence and their families coped with the experience. Davidson, formerly of the Dallas Morning News, won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography with seven colleagues from that paper for photos of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

A dove is released at the memorial service for 5-year-old Aaron Jerel Shannon Jr., who died after he was shot in the head by a stray bullet on Halloween.

Ten-year-old Erica Miranda was shot three times in the back, knee and hip while playing basketball outside her home in Compton.

Wendoly Andrade holds her son, Josue, at their home in Long Beach. Josue, 4, was playing with his sister when a stray bullet hit him in the back of the head. Josue was in a coma for several days, fighting for his life.