This premiere category recognizes the collaborative effort of a photography staff covering a single topic or news story. It is a narrative picture story or series that is comprised of images taken as part of a team or staff effort to cover a single issue or news story. Entries are limited to one entry per news organization.
These 19 pictures illuminate the confusion, the shock, the horror and the deeply etched sorrow of the Ukraine war. They represent the entirety of the war, taken in every region, every season. The entry begins with the snow-dusted soldier in Kharkiv on Feb. 25 and continues until year’s end, to a rocket strike in Kherson and a photograph of an older couple, their faces rent with grief, staring at the body of their son.
These 19 pictures illuminate the confusion, the shock, the horror and the deeply etched sorrow of the Ukraine war. They represent the entirety of the war, taken in every region, every season. The entry begins with the snow-dusted soldier in Kharkiv on Feb. 25 and continues until year’s end, to a rocket strike in Kherson and a photograph of an older couple, their faces rent with grief, staring at the body of their son.