AP today earned its 54th Pulitzer Prize – 32nd for photography – in the feature photography category for compelling images of daily life under military lockdown in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Click the slideshow below to see the winning photographs:
Kashmiri men dismantle a portion of a house destroyed in a gunbattle in Tral village, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, March 4, 2019.
Kashmiri Muslim devotees offer prayer outside the shrine of Sufi saint Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Dec. 9, 2019.
A masked Kashmiri protester jumps on the bonnet of an armored vehicle of Indian police as he throws stones at it during a protest in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, May 31, 2019.
Masked Kashmiris shout slogans during a protest after Friday prayers on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Oct. 4, 2019.
Indian paramilitary soldiers break motorbikes parked outside a college as they clash with students protesting against the alleged rape of a 3-year-old girl in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, May 14, 2019.
Women shout slogans as Indian policemen fire teargas and live ammunition in the air to stop a protest march in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Aug. 9, 2019.
Kashmiri Muslim children attend recitation classes of the holy Quran on the first day of fasting month of Ramadan in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, May 7, 2019.
An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier keeps vigil near the India Pakistan border at Garkhal in Akhnoor, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) west of Jammu, India, Aug.13, 2019.
A Kashmiri boy tries to take out a bullet out from the wall of a damaged house after a gun battle in Tral, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, May 24, 2019.
An Indian paramilitary soldier orders a Kashmiri to open his jacket before frisking him during curfew in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Aug. 8, 2019.
An elderly Kashmiri man sits outside a closed market during a strike in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Feb. 17, 2019.
A Kashmiri man walks on a snow covered footbridge as it snows in the interiors of Dal Lake Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Dec. 13, 2019.
Six-year-old Muneefa Nazir, a Kashmiri girl whose right eye was hit by a marble ball shot allegedly by Indian Paramilitary soldiers, stands outside her home in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sept. 17, 2019.
A wounded woman is carried on a stretcher for treatment after she was injured in a bus accident, at a local hospital in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, June 27, 2019.
Kashmiri villagers grieve near the body of an 11-year-old boy, Aatif Mir, during his funeral procession in Hajin village, north of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, March 22, 2019.
Kashmiri men shout freedom slogans during a protest against New Delhi’s tightened grip on the disputed region on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Aug. 23, 2019.
Indian police officers guard as Kashmiri Muslims pray as the head priest displays a relic of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal shrine on the occasion of the Prophet’s birth anniversary in Srinagar, India, Nov. 10, 2019.
A deserted street is seen through barbwire set up as blockade during curfew in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Aug. 6, 2019.
An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard as Kashmiri Muslims offer Friday prayers on a street outside a local mosque during curfew-like restrictions in Srinagar, India, Aug. 16, 2019.
Flames and smoke billow from a residential building where militants are suspected to have taken refuge during a gun battle in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Feb. 18, 2019.
AP was named a finalist for breaking news photography for images of anti-government protests in Haiti.
The photos are available in the slideshow below:
Demonstrators run away from police shooting in their direction as a car burns during a protest demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 12, 2019.
A demonstrator seeks help for a woman who was shot during clashes with national police officers as the demonstrators demanded the resignation of President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 7, 2019.
A police officer points his gun at residents of Delmas 95 district during a protest demanding the resignation of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 18, 2019.
Looters run away from a store as national police arrive during a protest demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 12, 2019.
A protester yells anti-government slogans in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 9, 2019.
A moto-taxi driver takes two women past a burning barricade set up by people protesting fuel shortages in Petion-ville, Haiti, Sept. 15, 2019.
Demonstrators drag the body of a fellow protester toward police as a form of protest after police shot into the crowd during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise near the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 12, 2019.
Onlookers peer at the body of a man who was dragged through the street and struck with machetes lying in the road in Gressier, Haiti, after he was lynched for allegedly killing a man in nearby Leogane to steal his motorcycle, Oct. 6, 2019.
A relative of Rigueur Pierre Richard, who was killed in a drive-by shooting two blocks from the national palace, is overcome with grief during a protest against fuel shortages, demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 20, 2019.
A demonstrator sits on the coffin containing the body of a protester who was killed during previous protests in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 4, 2019.
Opposition Senator Ralph Fethiere fires his gun outside Parliament as he arrives for a ceremony to ratify Fritz William Michel’s nomination as prime minister in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 23, 2019.
People take cover after presidential guards opened fire to disperse mourners after clashing with protesters attending a public funeral for two people killed in recent protests, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 16, 2019.
Gang members stand guard and hold guns six months after a massacre in the La Saline slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, May 31, 2019.
A street vendor hides during clashes between protesters and national police officers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 9, 2019.
A man uses a hammer to remove pieces of a coffin to make it fit inside the grave during the burial of a person killed during a month of demonstrations aimed at ousting Haitian President Jovenel Moise at a cemetery in central Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 16, 2019.
A protester who was hit in the leg by police fire is helped onto a motorcycle to be taken to the hospital, as police clash with demonstrators in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 30, 2019.
Protesters and passerby look at images on a wall of people said to have been injured or killed during the past month of protests calling for the resignation of President Jovenel Moise, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 15, 2019.
Family and friends transport the coffins containing the remains of protesters recently killed, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 19, 2019.
Relatives of murdered community leader Josemano “Badou” Victorieux mourn during his funeral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 16, 2019.
A churchgoer drops to the ground and prays in the street near burning tires lit by protesters, during a march called by religious leaders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Oct. 22, 2019.
