Six Latin American photojournalists are part of the Associated Press (AP) team that was awarded with the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in the Feature Photography category. This year's Pulitzer winners were announced this Monday, May 6.
The awarded Latin American photojournalists are Fernando Llano and Iván Valencia, from Colombia; Marco Ugarte and Eduardo Verdugo, from Chile; and Christian Chávez and Félix Márquez, from Mexico, according to the Mexican newspaper El Economista and Colombia's El Tiempo.
Eric Gay and Gregory Bull, from the United States, complete the winning team, according to AP.
The awarded work consists of 15 images that portray the path of migrants from the south and center of the continent to the United States. The photographs were taken throughout 2023 at various points in Latin America and along the U.S.-Mexico border, AP reported.
The images “spotlight the humanity of an unprecedented global migration story often overlooked in a storm of statistics and political rhetoric,” the agency said. The work also documents “the anxiety, heartbreak and even the brief moments of joy that mark the migrants’ journey,” AP added.
The Pulitzer Prize jury chose the AP photo staff' work as the winner for its "poignant photographs chronicling unprecedented masses of migrants and their arduous journey north from Colombia to the border of the United States.”
