Doug Mills, for Photographer new York TimesAnd contributor to New Yorker, Moise Saman has been named the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Award in two photography categories. A series of mills captured during the attempt to murder on Donald Trump won the braking news photography category, while the photographs of Sedney Jail summon in Syria won the award for feature photography.
Pulitzer Award for Breaking News Photography
Doug Mills was one of the three finalists Angan france-repres Photography staff (for their outstanding coverage on the ground in Gaza) and Nanna Heitman, Tyler Hicks, David Gutennafelde, and Nicole Tung Off the new York Times (For his frequent photography of war in Ukraine).
Doug Mills gave the award, “For a sequence of attempt to kill the then presidential candidate Donald Trump, in which an image of a bullet is whispering through the wind, as he speaks.”
A notable series of photos taken by @dougmillsnyt And posted on NYT, where you can see a bullet flying behind Trump’s head, Trump touched his right ear, and then removed his hand with blood on it: https://t.co/blvyoeashn pic.twitter.com/myptvvjhax
– Meridith Macgra (@Meriditmhcgraw) July 14, 2024
The photo sequence was captured in July 2024 when Donald Trump was holding a rally in Pennsylvania. By that point, Mills states that it was a “standard, specific” rally for the expectation of the then President and he and about four other photographers were covering the incident until the gunshots left out.
“At first I felt that this was a car. The last thing I thought was a gun,” Mills wrote at that time“I kept taking pictures. He went down behind the lecture, and I thought,” Oh my God, something happened. “
Mills says that he has never been a part of such a horrors.
“I was always afraid of being in this situation. I always wondered what I would do in this situation. I hope I will get the right shot. I hope I am not shooting myself.”
A remarkable picture captured by Dug Mills, an associate of my former White House Press Corps.
Zoom above President Trump’s shoulder and you will see a bullet flying in the air on the right side of President Trump after an attempt to murder. pic.twitter.com/fqmlbcytow
– Haaj n. Ghanbari (@harazghanbari) July 14, 2024
Pulitzer Award for feature photography
Moses summons, a contributor the new Yorker“The winner of the Pulitzer Award for feature photography for his persecuted black and white images of Sednaya Jail in Syria was named as the painful heritage of Asad’s torture rooms.” The chain was Published on 30 December 2024,
Saman was nominated with photography staff associated Press From Gaza to his “brave and entertaining imagination, who steps back from front lines to the chronicle daily life because it continues in a battlefield,” and Linci Adario, contributor to the contributor the new York TimesA young Ukrainian girl with a rare eye cancer “for sensitive and fierce photo essays, whose treatment failed from war.”
2025 Pulitzer Award winners can get a complete list On the organization’s website,
