AP won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for courageous reporting from the besieged city of Mariupol that bore witness to the slaughter of civilians in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The photos comprising the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography are featured in the slideshow below:
The Pulitzer was awarded on unique and urgent images from the first weeks of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the devastation of Mariupol after other news organizations left, victims of targeting of civilian infrastructure and the resilience of the Ukrainian people who were able to flee.
AP was named a finalist in the breaking news photography category for a compelling visual narrative documenting public fury over Sri Lanka’s economic collapse, including clashes between protesters and police, the takeover of government buildings and jubilation as protesters occupied the plush presidential mansion.
The photos are available in the slideshow below:
A protester holds a portrait of former Sri Lankan prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa upside down after storming Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office, demanding he resign after president Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
A protester sits on a chair surrounded by others after storming the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office, demanding he resign after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/ Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
AP was also named a finalist in the feature photography category for images capturing the vulnerability, trauma and defiance of elderly Ukrainians caught in the Russian invasion, many of them unable or unwilling to flee the carnage.
The photos are available in the slideshow below:
Motria Oleksiienko, 99 years old and traumatized by the Russian occupation, is comforted by her daughter-in-law, Tetiana Oleksiienko, in a room without heating in the village of Andriivka, Ukraine, as heavy fighting continues between Russian and Ukrainian forces, April 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Patients eat a meal in a shelter for injured and homeless people in Izium, Ukraine, Sept. 26, 2022. A young Ukrainian boy with disabilities, 13-year-old Bohdan, is now an orphan after his father, Mykola Svyryd, was taken by cancer in the devastated eastern city of Izium. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
An elderly man in a bed at a hospice in Chasiv Yar city, Donetsk district, Ukraine, April 18, 2022. At least 35 men and women, some in wheelchairs and most of them with mobility issues, were helped by volunteers to flee from the region that has been under attack. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Motria Oleksiienko, 99 years old and traumatized by the Russian occupation, is comforted by her daughter-in-law, Tetiana Oleksiienko, in a room without heating in the village of Andriivka, Ukraine, as heavy fighting continues between Russian and Ukrainian forces, April 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)