Patrick Farrell of the Miami Herald and Damon Winter of The New York Times were awarded Pulitzer Prizes–the most prestigious award in journalism–for their photography, with Farrell winning for breaking news photography and Winter for feature photography.

Farrell, a veteran photographer, won for his series of photo essays detailing Haiti’s unthinkable suffering after the pounding onslaught of the 2008 hurricane season. One particularly haunting photograph shows a man attempting to put a dress on the lifeless body of his daughter before she was loaded into a truck–that image ran with the Miami Herald story about Farrell’s win.

View Farrell’s Pultizer Prize-winning photographs and listen to an interview with him here.

Winter, who shot for the Dallas Morning News and the Los Angeles Times before joining The New York Times staff two years ago, won for his coverage of President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Winter told Photo District News in a 2008 interview that he frequently petitioned for backstage access during the campaign, something he said was rarely awarded to newspaper photographers.

View Winter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs here.

Established in 1917, Pulitzer Prizes honor excellence in U.S. print journalism and in drama, letters (fiction and non-fiction writing) and music.

View the complete list of winners here.

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